ALMA Unveils Cosmic Nursery and Stellar Graveyard in Most Remote Galaxy Ever Observed

An international team of astronomers, spearheaded by Professor Yoichi Tamura of Nagoya University, has achieved an astronomical tour de force by capturing high-resolution images of a fledgling galaxy that existed a mere 600 million years after the Big Bang. These groundbreaking images, obtained with ALMA, have shed light on previously unseen structures formed through the interplay of dark and emission nebulae.

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