CR7 (IMAGE)

University of California - Riverside

CR7

Caption

This artist's impression shows CR7 a very distant galaxy discovered using ESO's Very Large Telescope. It is by far the brightest galaxy yet found in the early universe and there is strong evidence that examples of the first generation of stars lurk within it.

Credit

ESO/M. Kornmesser.

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