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SCIENCEMay 13 · 15:53 UTCARS TECHNICAJacek Krywko

Gravitational lens shows a galaxy just 800 million years post-Big Bang

Astronomers used the James Webb Space Telescope to observe an ultra-faint galaxy called LAP1-B, existing roughly 800 million years after the Big Bang. The galaxy is 13 billion light-years away from Earth and was spotted due to a massive cluster of galaxies. This discovery provides insights into the ancient epoch when the Universe's first generation of stars ignited.

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