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...looking through a cluster of galaxies, astronomers have now found the magnified images of much more distant galaxies...
...anything, that's an understatement. The first galaxies to emerge from the blackness of the early universe can't be studied in detail until telescope technology makes another great leap. But Ellis and Stark may have got a glimpse--and given theorists the first hard evidence--of that unimaginably distant time when the cosmos left infancy behind and entered the formative childhood that led, eventually, to our sun and the tiny blue planet that circles it. [This article contains a complex diagram. Please see hardcopy of magazine.] Illuminating a Dark Age How the universe grew from a murky soup...
Light from a distant object...
Light from a distant object 7 8 9 10 Galaxy cluster...
...team of astrophysicists using the Keck and Hubble telescopes has found distant galaxies warped into odd, elongated shapes, as though they were being glimpsed through a cosmic fun-house mirror. The light from those galaxies ordinarily could never be detected through existing telescopes...