James Webb Looked Into Alpha Centauri… What It Saw Terrified Scientists
There are moments in astronomy when a familiar corner of the sky suddenly becomes unrecognizable—when a telescope captures something so strange, so out of place, that the universe seems to shift beneath our feet. It happened before with the first exoplanets, with the first black hole images, with the first hints of galaxies older than theory allowed. And now, it has happened again. When the James Webb Space Telescope turned its gaze toward Alpha Centauri—the closest star system to our own—astronomers expected clarity. Instead, they found patterns that should not exist, shadows cast by invisible objects, and a planetary system shaped by forces no one had predicted. This is the story of what Webb saw… and why it left scientists unsettled. Let us begin.
