Light from the most distant sources known, emitted when the Universe was only a billion years old, hints at a complex history of star and galaxy formation, and at their effect on the primordial gas around them.
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Djorgovski, S. Out of the Dark Ages. Nature 427, 790–791 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1038/427790a
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