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317070today at 10:25 AM1 replyview on HN

I love the finding, but I really like the first sentence on their abstract: "JWST has revealed a stunning population of bright galaxies at surprisingly early epochs, z>10, where few such sources were expected."

Unless stunning has a technical meaning I'm unaware of, I like this approach of starting a technical paper with something less dry.


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beltertoday at 10:42 AM

In scientific writing stunning can also be used in a neutral sense to mean far outside the baseline. It does not necessarily carry an aesthetic meaning like stunningly beautiful... :-)