The first galaxies to ever form in the cosmos lie far from the Milky Way (due to the expansion of the universe), making them a challenge to detect. Without this natural magnification of the galaxy's light, "we would not have been able to see it," Kuang-Han Huang, of the University of California-Davis, said in a statement. Huang lead a team of international astronomers that combined images taken by the Keck Observatory in Hawaii and NASA's space-based Hubble Space Telescope to confirm the age and other characteristics of the young galaxy.
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