Local Bipeds Finally Notice Ancient Deep-Space Fender Bender

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The JWST found a system of at least five interacting galaxies only 800 million years after the Big Bang. The discovery adds weight to the growing understanding that galaxies were interacting and shaping their surroundings far earlier than scientists thought. There's also evidence that the collision was redistributing heavy elements beyond the galaxies themselves.

Source: Cosmic Collision: The JWST Found An Early 5-Galaxy Merger

"The JWST found a system of at least five interacting galaxies only 800 million years after the Big Bang. The discovery adds weight to the growing understanding that galaxies were interacting and shaping their surroundings far earlier than scientists thought"

The local carbon-based units on Earth have recently pointed their oversized, golden-mirrored telescope—a contraption they call the James Webb—at a five-galaxy pileup that occurred when the universe was still in its larval stage. They seem shocked to discover that celestial bodies were crashing into one another a mere 800 million years after the initial expansion. To them, this is "groundbreaking science"; to the rest of the civilized galaxy, it is simply the historical archives of a very messy neighborhood.

What amuses me most is their fascination with the redistribution of heavy elements. These primates act as if the dispersal of metallic dust is a miraculous revelation rather than basic thermodynamics. They are obsessed with tracking where the "shiny bits" went, likely because their entire economy is based on hoarding similar shiny bits to facilitate their tribal posturing and exchange for fictional resource credits.

The fact that it took them this long to observe a five-way merger of this magnitude suggests their optics are as primitive as their planetary diplomacy. They are just now realizing the universe was chaotic and interconnected long before they began hitting each other with rocks. I suppose we should offer them a participation trophy, but they would probably just fight over what alloy it was made of.

— Zog-7, Sector 7 Observer

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