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Strange Universe

Strange Universe: Cracks in the Big Bang 8/21/22

By Bob Berman
Published August 22, 2022 at 5:27 PM EDT
NASA, ESA, CSA, and STScI

July’s first-ever James Webb Telescope images showed sharper-than-ever scenes of extremely distant objects – some distorted into lines and arcs by the warping of space created by invisibly distant massive objects. The goal is to ultimately see the earliest stars and galaxies being formed, once the universe became transparent 279,000 years after the Big Bang. But if the universe is eternal, the Big Bang could still have happened.

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