Galaxies in the young Universe

Distant cluster of galaxies

 Galaxies in the young universe
Galaxies: snapshots in time Lost ancestors to the Milky Way
Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope as a "time machine" have obtained the clearest views yet of distant galaxies that existed when the universe was a fraction of its current age.

A series of remarkable pictures, spanning the life history of the cosmos, are providing the first clues to the life history of galaxies.

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