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Almost a Third of Early Galaxies Were Already Spirals


In the years before the JWST's launch, astronomers' efforts to understand the early Universe were stymied by a stubborn obstacle: the light from the early Universe was red-shifted to an extreme degree. The JWST was built with extreme redshifts in mind, and one of its goals was to study Galaxy Assembly.

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