Cosmic eye sheds light on early galaxy formation

Wednesday, October 8, 2008 - 12:42 in Astronomy & Space

A Cosmic Eye has given scientists a unique insight into galaxy formation in the very early Universe. Using gravity from a foreground galaxy as a zoom lens the team was able to see a young star-forming galaxy in the distant Universe as it appeared only two billion years after the Big Bang.

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