Using a cosmic zoom lens, astronomers have discovered what may be one of the first baby galaxies in the universe–a clump of young stars that might have merged long ago with thousands of other infants to form one of the earliest full-grown galaxies.
Distant object, distorted by a gravitational lens into two images (circled), may be an early galactic building block.
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