EGSY8p7

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EGSY8p7 (EGSY-2008532660) is a distant galaxy in the constellation of Boötes, with a spectroscopic redshift of z = 8.68 (photometric redshift 8.57), a light travel distance of 13.2 billion light-years from Earth.

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Image: Ivo Labbe - Leiden University, NASA - Hubble & Spitzer Space Telescopes, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.