The first galaxies to ever form in the cosmos lie far from the Milky Way (due to the expansion of the universe), making them a challenge to detect. Using a natural magnifying-glass process known as gravitational lensing, scientists have spotted one of the faintest of these early galaxies that they have ever observed. Scientists are seeing the galaxy as it appeared only a few hundred million years after the Big Bang kicked off the formation of the universe. Without this natural magnification of the galaxy's light, "we would not have been able to see it," Kuang-Han Huang, of the University of California-Davis, said in a statement. Huang lead a team of international astronomers that combined images ...
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