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Pictures: Marijn Franx (University of Groningen, The Netherlands), Garth Illingworth (University of California, Santa Cruz) and NASA |

Magnifying Glass

With a boost from a naturally occurring magnifying glass in space, the Hubble Space Telescope makes out the most distant galaxy in the universe. It is about 13 billion light years away, meaning it was formed about 1 billion years after the Big Bang, during the formative years of the universe.
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