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The 'Beautiful Confusion' of the First Billion Years Comes into View
Astronomers are reveling in the James Webb Space Telescope’s discoveries about the formative epoch of cosmic history.
To punctuate the confusion astronomers feel about this once-in-a-lifetime telescope upending what we know of the young universe, he flashed up a tongue-in-cheek slide: a cartoon of a dog sitting at a table sipping coffee while its house is in flames, captioned “This is fine.” Andrea Ferrara, a cosmologist at the Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa, Italy, showed his colleagues in Santa Barbara a new model that tries to explain the bright early galaxies by changing the amount of dust within them, which would typically block starlight. Eighty-three years ago, during World War II, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers built the nearby Santa Barbara airport using land dredged from Mescalitan Island, site of a Chumash Indian settlement.
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