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Qualitative- "earliest, most distant galaxy"
- "active, bright galaxy near the very dawn of the cosmos"
- "Capturing an image from a far-off light source is like looking back in time"
- "our snapshot of this distant galaxy is extremely old"
- "far away that the light coming from it is extremely faint"
- "surprisingly active and bright at the time we see it"
- "vivid blue color"
- "670 million years from the Big Bang"
- "the universe, now 13.8 billion years old"
- "looking back through 95 percent of all time to see this galaxy"
- "roughly 13.1 billion years old"
- "forming stars at roughly 80 times the rate the Milky Way does today"
- "8 billion suns’ worth of mass"
- "more than 15 percent of the mass of the Milky Way"
- "been around for just a few hundred million years — a mere fraction of the Milky Way’s more than 13 billion years in business."
- "galaxy EGS-zs8-1 is very far away"
- "it appears as a tiny speck on a photograph taken by the Hubble and Spitzer space telescopes"
- "an enhanced photo of the galaxy appears as a mass of blue light"