By David Warren, The Catholic Thing - The students of galactic structure in our early universe are, shall we say, surprised. That the galaxies are there, at all, is part of their charm. It now also seems that they appeared much earlier than expected in our cosmic models... But it is worse than that. The objects, we’ve now learned, are bigger and brighter than anyone expected, and many of the galaxies show an unintelligible maturity. Disc galaxies that resemble our Milky Way, more than ten billion years later, were waiting to tease us.