GN-z11 (IMAGE)

Carnegie Institution for Science

GN-z11

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An artist's conception of the most-distant known astrophysical object--GN-z11, a galaxy 13.4 billion light-years from Earth--depicted with a gamma-ray burst like the one caught by the astronomers that allowed them to understand this phenomenon in the early universe.

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Illustration is courtesy of Jingchuan Yu.

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