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Robert Lea

Extremely distant galaxy reveals stories of stars from their cradles to their graves

ALMA observations of the nebula MACS0416_Y1 containing the most distant star forming region and site of stellat death ever seen

Astronomers have identified what might be the most distant site of star birth, and death, ever seen. 

The region is located in an interstellar cloud of gas and dust, called a nebula, that also dwells in a galaxy located some 13.2 billion light-years from Earth. This tells us that the area is seen as it was only about 600 million years after the Big Bang. 

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