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JWST Sees a Milky Way-Like Galaxy Coming Together in the Early Universe


c galaxies we see in the Universe today, including our own Milky Way galaxy, started out far smaller. Mergers throughout the Universe's 13.7 billion years gradually assembled today's massive galaxies.

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