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Newly released photos from the James Webb Space Telescope have allowed scientists to view farther into space and farther into the past than ever before.

The image is emerging or raising questions about what we thought we knew about the early universe.

One viral article from independent scientist and author Eric Lerner made the rounds on social

media in recent weeks with its provocative claim that the Big Bang never happened.

Lerner claims that the images provide evidence that the Big Bang theory is flawed.

He also leveled accusations at the astronomy community of censorship and refusal to acknowledge contradictory

evidence to the widely accepted theory. In this episode of Morning Wire we speak to

UC San Diego professor of cosmology Brian Keating about what the images show and what we of And this is your Sunday edition of Morning Wire.

Now, right off the bat, for listeners who are interested,

learner's article is widely available online

as well as numerous detailed critiques and we were not able to reach him for comments but his claims are fairly straightforward so I'm going to do my best to sum them up.

He basically says the images of galaxies we're seeing don't match

predictions made by the Big Bang Theory for a few reasons. First, he says they're

too small. He cites an optical illusion that we would expect to see given the expansion theorized by the Big Bang.

He says, because the light would have left these distant galaxies when they were much closer to us, they should appear much larger than

they do. The fact that they appear quite small, he says, suggests that they're either extraordinarily

small intrinsically so as to overcompensate for that optical illusion, which he says

would make them implausibly small, or the Big Bang prediction itself is wrong. He also says these galaxies appear too

mature to have formed just four to five hundred million years after the Big Bang.

He says the fact that the galaxies are tidy and round rather than chaotic

suggests that they're older than four to five hundred million years, which again

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