{"id":237702,"date":"2026-05-25T14:04:03","date_gmt":"2026-05-25T19:04:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/we-found-galaxies-too-old-for-the-universe"},"modified":"2026-05-25T14:04:03","modified_gmt":"2026-05-25T19:04:03","slug":"we-found-galaxies-too-old-for-the-universe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/we-found-galaxies-too-old-for-the-universe","title":{"rendered":"We Found Galaxies Too Old for the Universe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/FMdrD_jcYgE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Learn More About Opera: <a href=\"https:\/\/opr.as\/04-Opera-browser-pbssp\">https:\/\/opr.as\/04-Opera-browser-pbssp<\/a>\u2026<\/p>\n<p>The James Webb Space Telescope found galaxies that are too ancient-looking for our young universe. You may have heard that, but it keeps finding them, and our recent efforts to solve this conundrum point in wildly different directions. Have we found galaxies older than the universe, or did we just learn something incredible about how galaxies form?<\/p>\n<p>Check out be smart\u2019s mercator map episode. \u2022 something strange happens when you flatten\u2026<\/p>\n<p>And the full earth month playlist. \u2022 behind the scenes: the fight to save india\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Sign Up on Patreon to get access to the Space Time Discord!<br \/> \/ pbsspacetime.<\/p>\n<p>Check out the Space Time Merch Store.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/we-found-galaxies-too-old-for-the-universe\">Continue reading \u201cWe Found Galaxies Too Old for the Universe\u201d | &gt;<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Learn More About Opera: https:\/\/opr.as\/04-Opera-browser-pbssp\u2026 The James Webb Space Telescope found galaxies that are too ancient-looking for our young universe. You may have heard that, but it keeps finding them, and our recent efforts to solve this conundrum point in wildly different directions. Have we found galaxies older than the universe, or did we just [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-237702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237702","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=237702"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237702\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}