Webb Latest Discovery Might Be the Weirdest Ever Recorded

Описание: Deep images of the SMACS 0723 revealed mysterious tiny red dots that look exactly like stars… yet their spectra show they are massive galaxies packed into incredibly small volumes. Astronomers call them “platypus galaxies” — objects that blur the boundary between stars and galaxies and challenge long-standing models of cosmic formation.

Located roughly 12 billion light-years away, these compact galaxies appear to contain billions of stars squeezed into regions only a few dozen light-years across. Their existence suggests galaxies in the early universe may have formed far faster and more efficiently than traditional hierarchical models predict.

Even more surprising? These objects may have been hiding in plain sight — filtered out of past surveys because they looked like ordinary foreground stars. Their discovery forces astronomers to rethink how we classify cosmic objects and how we search the deep universe.

This video explores:

• Why platypus galaxies look like stars
• How spectroscopy revealed their true nature
• What they mean for galaxy formation theory
• Why we may have missed millions of them
• How JWST is reshaping our cosmic census
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The universe doesn’t follow our categories — and these tiny red galaxies prove it.