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Ivo Labbe, ARC Future Fellow / Associate Professor, Swinburne University of Technology

‘We just discovered the impossible': how giant baby galaxies are shaking up our understanding of the early Universe

Images of six candidate massive galaxies, seen 500–800 million years after the Big Bang. NASA / ESA / CSA / I. Labbe, Author provided

“Look at this,” says Erica’s message. She is poring over the very first images from the brand new James Webb Space Telescope (JWST).

It is July 2022, barely a week after those first images from the revolutionary super telescope were released. Twenty-five years in the making, a hundred to a thousand times more powerful than any previous telescope, one of the biggest and most ambitious scientific experiments in human history: it is hard to not speak in superlatives, and it is all true.

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