The JWST's Data Is So Incredible That Even Those Who Built It Are Questioning Previous Science

'Being wrong isn't bad, it's part of the process.'

UC Santa Cruz astronomer Garth Illingworth, former Deputy Director of the Space Telescope Science Institute, has had a hell of a career.

existing theories about the cosmos. Curious about what that data means ourselves, we caught up with Illingworth to talk about space telescopes, far away worlds, and the ever evolving scientific process.Futurism: Your work has been extensive. Can you tell us a bit about your research and where it's taken you?Sure, I'll give you the scientific framework. I'm an astronomer, and my key interests have been the early galaxies in the universe. Basically, we live 13.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but you and your team discovered what's believed to be the most distant and earliest galaxy that humans have yet seen, dating back to about 400 million years after the Big Bang.400 million, 450 million years

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