Oxygen has been detected in the most distant galaxy ever discovered, surprised astronomers said on Thursday, offering further evidence that stars in the early universe matured far quicker than had ...

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It was not so long ago that peering into the universe’s infancy was more science fiction than science. Telescopes like Hubble and Spitzer teased us with glimpses of galaxies forming a few hundred ...