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James Webb telescope spots ‘Capotauro,’ a mysterious object so peculiar it will change cosmology no matter what it is

James Webb telescope spots ‘Capotauro,’ a mysterious object so peculiar it will change cosmology no matter what it is

Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers have spotted a very bright and mysterious object that could be a galaxy that emerged just 100 million years after the Big Bang, which would make it the universe’s earliest known galaxy, a new study suggests. Alternatively, Capotauro may be an extraordinary brown dwarf (a “failed star” that is more massive than …

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