The Royal Astronomical Society, in association with CalTech, has issued an exciting press release.  The hunt for the first galaxies in the Universe is well and truly underway, and it reports the discovery of the most distant galaxies yet found.  It begins:

“Using natural ‘gravitational lenses’, an international team of astronomers claim to have found a hint of a population of the most distant galaxies yet seen - the light we see from them today left more than 13 thousand million years ago, when the Universe was just 500 million years old. …”

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