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NASA Telescopes Spy Ultra-Distant Galaxy Amidst Cosmic ’Dark Ages’

19 September 2012

WASHINGTON -- With the combined power of NASA’s Spitzer and Hubble space telescopes, as well as a cosmic magnification effect, astronomers have spotted what could be the most distant galaxy ever seen. Light from the young galaxy captured by the orbiting observatories first shone when our 13.7-billion-year-old universe was just 500 million years old.






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