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Imagine the candles on its birthday cake: Astro-eggheads detect galaxy born in universe's first billion years

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WTF?

Confused

According to this Hubble press release, they spotted the galaxy MACS0647-JD when it was just 420 millions years old. Which seems younger than G09 83808 by around half a billion years.

Can someone clever explain what's going on here?

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