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JWST Reveals Actively Forming Early Galaxy, Lightweight as a Baby Milky Way


A galaxy lurking in the far reaches of the Universe, a mere 600 million years after the Big Bang, is giving us our best glimpse yet at what our own infant Milky Way might have looked like.

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