Searching for distant objects in our Universe is equivalent to looking back in time, to the early origins of stars and galaxies. The most distant object known shows the earliest evidence of star formation.
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Solomon, P. An early stellar nursery. Nature 424, 382–383 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1038/424382a
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