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GN-z11 is the oldest and most distant known galaxy in the observable universe 32,000 million ly away in the constellation Ursa Major - 4% the size of the Milky Way, 1% of its mass, forming stars twenty times as fast - The fact that a galaxy so massive existed soon after the first stars challenge current models of galaxy formation -
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| Author | Pablo Carlos Budassi |
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