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February 12, 2008 09:00 AM (EST)

News Release Number: STScI-2008-08

Astronomers Find One of the Youngest and Brightest Galaxies in the Early Universe

Astronomers Find One of the Youngest and Brightest Galaxies in the Early UniverseGo to image download page

February 12, 2008: NASA's Hubble and Spitzer space telescopes, with a boost from a natural "zoom lens," have uncovered what may be one of the youngest and brightest galaxies ever seen in the middle of the cosmic "dark ages," just 700 million years after the beginning of our universe.

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Credit: NASA; ESA; L. Bradley (Johns Hopkins University); R. Bouwens (University of California, Santa Cruz); H. Ford (Johns Hopkins University); and G. Illingworth (University of California, Santa Cruz)

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