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The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has discovered the most distant galaxy ever confirmed, named JADES-GS-z14-0, which appears as it existed just 290 million years after the Big Bang.
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The discovery of this surprisingly luminous and massive early galaxy challenges theories about how galaxies formed in the cosmic dawn
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JWST has been repeatedly breaking its own records for the most distant galaxies since beginning operations in 2022
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Over here in 'murica, the only news that makes headlines is about either Biden, Trump, Musk, or mass shootings. 🙄
Not even that. With about two mass shootings per day on average, most mass shootings don’t make the news.
wait is this statistically correct?
A “mass shooting” has four or more people being hit, which happens about 800 times a year in the US. And about once a year in other western countries, if at all.
The fuck does headlines even mean? Which media outlets are you talking about?
I’ve seen JWST-related news consistently since its debut and not just from science/space-focused media but here you are saying America never talks about it?
Here’s one just 3 days ago https://www.newsweek.com/supermassive-black-hole-larger-early-universe-1916653
CBS has a running tag for JWST with many articles: https://www.cbsnews.com/tag/james-webb-space-telescope/
USA Today: https://www.usatoday.com/search/?q=James+Webb+space+telescope+
And many more, the New Yorker, ny times, the guardian, I could go on and on. They all post JWST consistently for YEARS now.
Speaking of the guardian, they posted about this exact discovery A MONTH AGO: https://amp.theguardian.com/science/article/2024/may/31/james-webb-space-telescope-photographs-most-distant-known-galaxy
Most of these examples I’m giving are common outlets that I don’t actually follow but many do. It’s not some niche content you must seek to find.
this you?