A galaxy has smashed the record for the most distant object ever observed. The object sheds light on the nature of the sources that stripped electrons from hydrogen atoms during the reionization epoch. See Letter p.940
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Trenti, M. Galaxy sets distance mark. Nature 467, 924–925 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1038/467924a
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