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The James Webb Space Telescope has found carbon in a galaxy just 350 million years after the Big Bang. That could mean life began much earlier too, a new study argues.

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[-] randon31415@lemmy.world 40 points 3 weeks ago

I wonder what this means for the "warm universe" concept: that at a certain point from insanely hot right after big bang to freezing cool depths of space, there was a point at which the entire universe was warm enough to allow for the development of life in space. One of the problems with those theories was that carbon wasn't present when the universe was warm enough to have liquid water in deep space.

[-] EmpathicVagrant@lemmy.world 10 points 3 weeks ago

What I’m hearing is that something might have been born in space and evolved to survive the freezing conditions, no?

[-] Khanzarate@lemmy.world 6 points 3 weeks ago

That'd be a possibility, yeah. Just a possibility, but very interesting nonetheless.

[-] MonkderDritte@feddit.de 7 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Or the universe is much older. Or our methods used to measure distance are inexact. We don't know.

[-] Rooskie91@discuss.online 7 points 3 weeks ago

That kurtzgesagt video gets closer to true every day.

[-] dugmeup@lemmy.world 5 points 3 weeks ago

Oh what's that?

[-] Cornpop@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago
[-] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 21 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)
[-] Deadrek@lemmy.today 1 points 3 weeks ago

Not sure which video specifically, but it appears to be a really neat animation YouTube channel that's probably going to be my new fixation. Lol

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