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Searching for the cosmic dawn

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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Figure 1: A gravitational lens.

A. FRUCHTER (STSCI) ET AL./WFPC2/HST/NASA

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