WORLD'S MOST POWERFUL TELESCOPES TEAM UP WITH A LENS IN NATURE TO DISCOVER
FARTHEST GALAXY IN THE UNIVERSE

An international team of astronomers has discovered the most distant galaxy
found in the universe to date, by combining the unique sharpness of the
images from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope with the light-collecting power
of the W. M. Keck Telescopes -- with an added boost from a gravitational
lens in space.


On July 30, find out more at the Hubble Informal Science Education Website
at:

http://oposite.stsci.edu/pubinfo/education/informal-science/


or at:

http://oposite.stsci.edu/pubinfo/Latest.html


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