Gravitational Lens Helps Hubble, Keck See Most Distant Galaxy

Credit: ESA
Astronomers pushing the Hubble Space Telescope and 10-meter ground-based Keck telescopes in Hawaii to their limits have detected what they believe is the most distant object ever observed, a tiny galaxy that was spewing out new stars 13 billion years ago when it generated the light now reaching...

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