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James Webb Telescope reveals barred galaxies billions of years ago
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The University of Texas said that, for the first time, new images from the James Webb Space Telescope have revealed galaxies with stellar bars in the early universe.
In a release, the University of Texas said the find of the barred galaxies will require scientists to fine-tune their theories of galaxy evolution, and noted that the Hubble Space Telescope had never detected bars at such young epochs. Julia Musto is a reporter for Fox News and Fox Business Digital.
For example, while the galaxy EGS-23205 appears blurry in a Hubble image, the image from Webb is more defined, revealing a spiral galaxy with a clear stellar bar.
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