The Hubble Space Telescope, teaming up with a 'cosmic lens', has revealed a highly magnified galaxy thought to date back to 500 million years after the Big Bang. The find provides a glimpse of the first stages of galaxy formation. See Letter p.406
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Stark, D. Searching for the cosmic dawn. Nature 489, 370–371 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1038/489370a
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