Aided by a cosmic magnifying glass, astronomers may have found a baby picture of the most distant galaxy known. Its faint spectra suggest that it lies about 13.2 billion light-years from Earth, exceeding the current record holder by about 300 million light-years (SN: 3/30/02, p. 196: Available to subscribers at Long Ago and Far Away: Astronomers find distant galaxy, early cluster).
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