Lured by the radio beacon of a faraway galaxy, astronomers have discovered the most distant cluster of galaxies known in the universe. The group lies 10 billion light-years from Earth and provides a snapshot of what a large collection of galaxies looked like when the cosmos was still in its youth.
X rayemitting gas around galaxy 3C294 (center blue dot) suggests the galaxy is part of a distant cluster.
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