Astronomers have discovered the glow of a dusty galaxy about 7.3 billion parsecs away that existed when the Universe was just 1.5 billion years old. Kirsten Knudsen of the Argelander Institute for Astronomy in Bonn, Germany, and her colleagues say that it is the earliest-known faint galaxy of its type - a type thought to incubate violent episodes of star birth.
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