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Robert Lea

HISTORICAL FACTS: Oxygen discovered in most distant galaxy ever seen it is like finding an adolescent where you would only expect babies - Caught on Camera

A boxout has a hazy blue dot. In the background, the entire scene within which this dot is but a speck. There are lots of other galaxies in that wider angle shot.

Astronomers have found oxygen in the farthest, and thus the earliest, galaxy ever seen. This marks the most distant detection of oxygen ever made by humanity.

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