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Robert Lea

James Webb Space Telescope finds 'hidden stars' making the universe's 1st galaxies much bigger than we knew

The nine studied galaxies captured by the James Webb Space Telescope. Their spectrum reveals that there are many more relatively small stars in these galaxies.

Imagine looking at a vast city on Earth from a great distance, knowing nothing about that city; you may assume that its only buildings are the largest, most visible skyscrapers. But, get closer or look with a far more powerful tool, and you would begin to discover smaller buildings between mountainous skyscrapers.

Now, the James Webb Space Telescope has discovered that this looks like that is a fitting analogy for early galaxies.

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