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Gr 6–8—In a photograph, galaxy UDFj-39546284 looks like a faint dot of starlight in a dark field, surrounded by much larger and brighter bodies. It's believed to be the oldest and most distant star cluster ever observed from Earth, a galaxy formed just half a billion years after the big bang. Many of the images in Dickinson and Read's lushly illustrated volume are particularly striking, resembling abstract paintings or backgrounds from science fiction book covers. For example, a mosaic photo of the Eagle Nebula, known as the ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More