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Distant Galaxies

March 31st, 2011

Credit: ESA/NASA

This fuzzy galaxy is forming just 500 million years after the Big Bang when the universe was just 4% of its current age. Images courtesy of NASA, ESA, G. Illingworth (University of California, Santa Cruz), R. Bouwens (University of California, Santa Cruz, and Leiden University), and the HUDF09 Team