Space Daily July 24, 2026 • 23:00

The universe is 13.8 billion years old. Webb is finding galaxies that look like they've been quietly forming stars for billions of years inside a cosmos that was, at the time of observation, only a few hundred million years old - Space Daily

Webb's stunning early galaxies are forcing astronomers to rethink cosmic history—but not quite in the way the headlines suggest.

There is an obvious problem with finding a two-billion-year-old stellar population in a galaxy observed 300 million years after the Big Bang. Both ages cannot be right within the same timeline.
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The universe is 13.8 billion years old. Webb is finding galaxies that look like they've been quietly forming stars for billions of years inside a cosmos that was, at the time of observation, only a few hundred million years old - Space Daily

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