NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has discovered ultraviolet light from a galaxy that existed just one point four billion years after the big bang. What makes this surprising is that the galaxy is far brighter in ultraviolet than astronomers expected, revealing intense star formation in the universe's infancy. The finding could reshape our understanding of how early galaxies formed and evolved.

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