Big News! The James Webb Space Telescope Has Just Discovered a Star That Is Older than the Universe!

What if a single star challenged everything we know about the age of the universe? Can we imagine a universe that is actually much older than assumed? In a shock moment for science, the James Webb Space Telescope has just tracked down a star whose age challenges our previous understanding of our cosmos.

[exodiathegod]

This is what i love about science. It continues to investigate, learn and has no problem correcting itself with new evidence

[OfentseMwaseFilms]

We are looking at 26 Billion Years old light. Can you even understand how far that light has to be? Can you understand how big our universe is?

[davidrichardson]

So the celestial matter I’m made up of is twice as old? That would explain my recent lethargy.

[IvanKalamazoo]

50 years from now, after launching the next generation space telescope, you'll observe stars that are 40-50 billion light years away. The Universe is infinite.

[unrealuknow]

We have yet to look in a billion different directions at such a distance. We are going to find so much more as time goes on.

[jackma]

So glad it was worth the wait, the effort and the price. A great test for the human intellect ❤

[robertgeranis]

I LOVE IT! Science keeps challenging us. Way to go JW team!

[CUNDUNDO]

The more James Webb discovers the more confused we all are 😂😂😂

[victorgrainger]

What an excellent video and explanation of the latest observations. Thank you

[baby-turtle]

It's not confusing at all. The Universe doesn't have an age. It has always existed. It creates itself out of itself.
It creates us out of itself, as we create out of ourselves.

[JakeMcClake]

This brings up the question, what makes us believe we know this? What makes us believe we know the age of the universe? What makes us believe we know how far back we are looking?

[Oliveir]

Is time the problem ? As well as our assumptions and simplifications. Including red shift. We take into account only speed but we measured photon interaction with electron leads to a small red shift

[notyourroad]

This supports my theory that the universe is much much older than we thought. Such as the universe has just always existed.

[PatrickMcMahon]

any stars you see that look older than the big bang would be stars on the other side of the center of the big bang. being that the bang expanded in all directions that would mean you would have to see stars on the other side of the central point.

[ASmithee]

James Webb is a success! It's overturning the established view and opening up science fields to innovation.

[totalyup]

i bet if you're floating in space, everything would look like its been distorted like looking through a glass bottle, and each galaxy looked like a glass ball, warping another galaxy behind it. very pretty and sparkly.

[Shin_Igami]

The more we learn. The more we knew nothing.

[muffettcarroll]

where is the sculpture pictured at 5:16 found, and what is it called?

[brokenbiker]

Read Faster than the Speed of Light by Joao Magueijo published in 2003. This also has a theory which looks at light changing speed over time. I need to read it again to see how this observation fits that physicist's theory.

[eggshellgoesgaming]

Since gravitational lensing is a real thing, so also must be gravitational refraction and reflection. Those distant galaxy observations might be spectral-skewed or simply objects much closer than they appear. It is also naïve to assume that time-space relativity is constant outside of our local gravity well. The universe flies by much faster when you are close to a black hole.