Fri. 01/13 - Surprisingly Old Galaxies & the Future of Libraries
New findings from the JWST may push the origins of the universe’s earliest galaxies back millions of years. Plus, a huge rare earth deposit has been found in Sweden. And an Instagram-based library run out of the home of a famous Mexico City artist––with a bonus defense of owning books you haven’t read.
Links:
The James Webb Space Telescope Is Finding Too Many Early Galaxies (Sky and Telescope)
The 1st galaxies may have formed much earlier than we thought, James Webb Space Telescope reveals (Space.com)
Astronomers May Have Just Spotted the Universe’s First Galaxies (Wired)
Huge rare earth…
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