Record breaking! James Webb telescope reveals galaxies like Milky Way in the early universe!!

New images from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) reveal for the first time galaxies with stellar bars—elongated features of stars stretching from the centers of galaxies into their outer disks—at a time when the universe was a mere 25% of its present age. The finding of so-called barred galaxies, similar to our Milky Way, this early in the universe will require astrophysicists to refine their theories of galaxy evolution.

In a Hubble image, one galaxy, EGS-23205, is little more than a disk-shaped smudge, but in the corresponding JWST image taken this past summer, it's a beautiful spiral galaxy with a clear stellar bar.

The team identified another barred galaxy, EGS-24268, also from about 11 billion years ago, which makes two barred galaxies existing farther back in time than any previously discovered.

In this video, I'll explain the unexpected discoveries and why they call for new model improvements.

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[peterryan]

JWST just keeps on validating it’s development and deployment. We as humans are obviously going to need to change many things based in these new discoveries. Sensational

[HenryFalkner]

Are you saying that barred galaxies were not expected to have existed this early?

[douginorlando]

Model improvement? or just throw it out and replace it. The fundamental assumptions are flawed

[eugeniomendoza]

Can the JWST find the birth of our solar system.

[VectorMonz]

We should not model what we are currently incapable of understanding.