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ASTRONOMY: Galactic Stripling Gives a Glimpse of the Universe's Raw Youth
Charles Seife
In an upcoming issue of Astronomy & Astrophysics, astronomers claim to have found the farthest galaxy yet: more than 13 billion years old, a relic from an era when the earliest galaxies were forming.