Maisie's Galaxy (IMAGE)

University of Texas at Austin

Maisie's Galaxy

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Spectroscopic observations reveal that Maisie’s galaxy, named after Steven Finkelstein’s daughter, was detected 390 million years after the Big Bang. That makes it one of the four earliest confirmed galaxies ever observed.

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NASA/STScI/CEERS/TACC/ University of Texas at Austin/S. Finkelstein/M. Bagley

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