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EPISODE · Aug 13, 2026 · 16 MIN

We Thought the Universe Was 13.8 Billion Years Old. We Were Wrong

from CurioVerse · host Panda Fury

Space telescope James Webb found “universe breakers” that appeared too massive, too bright, and too developed to exist so soon after the Big Bang. Some galaxies seemed fully formed only a few hundred million years after the universe began, forcing astronomers to question whether our timeline of cosmic evolution was fundamentally wrong

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