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The James Webb telescope found six galaxies that may be too hefty for their age

The masses of the galaxies raise questions about how they got so big so fast

Six images from the James Webb Space Telescope with three on top and three on the bottom. Each shows a different bright, red, dot that is a galaxy.

These images from the James Webb Space Telescope zoom in on six bright, red, extremely distant galaxies that appear to be too massive to exist.

I. Labbé/Swinburne University of Technology, CSA, ESA, NASA.  Image processing: G. Brammer/Niels Bohr Institute’s Cosmic Dawn Center/University of Copenhagen

By Lisa Grossman

The James Webb Space Telescope’s first peek at the distant universe unveiled galaxies that appear too big to exist.