Galaxy cluster (IMAGE)

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Galaxy cluster

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Colour image of the galaxy cluster used to detect one of the six galaxies, MACS0416-JD, examined in a study led by researchers at University College London and the University of Cambridge. This galaxy has an estimated age of 351 million years, which means that this galaxy was formed 178 million years after the Big Bang. The stellar mass of this galaxy is one billion times the mass of the Sun. This object is currently the most distant galaxy detected with ALMA.

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Credit: ESA/Hubble, NASA, HST Frontier Fields

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