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Kiona Smith

Webb captures 13.5 billion-year-old galaxies in a swath of northern sky


Picture the full Moon in the night sky; now imagine a tiny patch of sky about 2 percent that size, and imagine staring deep into it with the most powerful infrared telescope ever built until you can see the faint, distant light of the universe as it looked 13.5 billion years ago.

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