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  • Supremely Powerful Gamma Ray Burst Reveals Ancient, Distant Galaxy

    Astronomers have observed an ancient galaxy in the depths of outer space after catching a glimpse of light produced by an exploding star. When the dying star exploded more than 12 billion years ago, it so with so much force that the light it created was millions of times brighter than the the rest of the light in its galaxy. Light from that explosion has traveled from so far away that when the explosion occurred, Earth had not even formed yet.
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