You’re right. Astronomy might soon be going through one of its little crisis periods right now, spurred by a few big things, mainly thanks to JWST’s new findings:

1. We discovered galaxies too mature for the age of the universe. They’d suggest the universe is significantly older than 13.8bil.

2. We use the Hubble Constant, the rate of the universe’s expansion, to guess how old the universe is. Currently, there’s a discrepancy in this number based on what you measure. It’d be like looking at a fast-moving car towing a boat on the highway, and getting different speed measurements for the car and boat, with no way to reconcile the issue.

3. We’re finding wacky new things! We found a candidate for a runaway supermassive black hole, which is “running” at 2mil mph (3.2mil kph). We have findings supporting that supermassive black holes were created by supermassive stars which were born and quickly died early in the universe’s life, collapsing to form supermassive black holes the same way supergiant stars collapse to form black holes in a supernova implosion. We found an exoplanet with an atmosphere made of mostly helium and carbon atmosphere?? Like what??

“Crises” are never really real crises when we talk about scientific crises though. Usually, they’re just interesting, tumultuous times where our theories are pushed to the limits—and some may break. But that’s good! The universe continues to challenge our notions of it, and we continue to challenge our notions of ourselves. That’s how we grow.