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The presence of oxygen suggests that galaxies formed more quickly than expected in the early days of the universe.

Over the past few years or so the most talked about kind of telescope was the one that is meant to operate in space. An ...

Astronomers discovered oxygen in the most distant known galaxy. This changes what we thought about how fast galaxies formed.

Astronomers are gobsmacked by an abundance of oxygen in JADES-GS-z14-0, the earliest (and most distant) known galaxy in the ...