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JWST discovers baffling 'Big Wheel' galaxy in the ancient universe

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Giant disk galaxy existed within the first two billion years after the Big Bang .

It formed when the universe was just 15% of its current age.

It's located in an unusually crowded region of space, where galaxies are packed closely together, ten times denser than typical areas of the universe.

The Big Wheel challenges what we know about how galaxies form.