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Did the James Webb telescope ‘break the universe’? Maybe not

Astronomers are still figuring out how to interpret what JWST is telling them

An image showing enormous numbers of galaxies taken by NASA's James Webb Space Telescope

Galaxies abound in one of JWST’s first images of the universe, including several objects that initially appeared to be too big and bright to explain within our current understanding of physics.

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By Adam Mann

Reports that NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope broke the universe may have been exaggerated.

In its first images, JWST captured what