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We present early results regarding the morphological and structuralproperties of galaxies seen with the James Webb Space Telescope at $z > 3$ inthe Early Release Observations of SMACS 0723, a galaxy cluster at $z=0.39$. Weinvestigate, for the first time, the optical morphologies of a significantnumber of $z > 3$ galaxies with accurate photometric redshifts in this field todetermine the form of galaxy structure in the relatively early universe. We usevisual morphologies and \textsc{Morfometryka} measures to perform quantitativemorphology measurements, both parametric with light profile fitting (S\'ersicindices) and non-parametric (CAS values). Using these, we measure the relativefraction of disk, spheroidal, and peculiar galaxies at $3 < z < 8$. We discoverthe surprising result that at $z > 1.5$ disk galaxies dominate the overallfraction of morphologies, with a factor of $\sim 10$ relative higher number ofdisk galaxies than seen by the Hubble Space Telescope at these redshifts. Ourvisual morphological estimates of galaxies align closely with their locationsin CAS parameter space and their S\'ersic indices.

Panic! At the Disks: First Rest-frame Optical Observations of Galaxy Structure at $z > 3$ with JWST in the SMACS 0723 Field