GN-108036 is a distant

galaxy A galaxy is a system of stars, stellar remnants, interstellar gas, dust, dark matter, bound together by gravity. The word is derived from the Greek ' (), literally 'milky', a reference to the Milky Way galaxy that contains the Solar System. ...

discovered and confirmed by the

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and the

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located in

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; its study was also completed by the Hubble Space Telescope and the Spitzer Space Telescope."NASA Telescopes Help Find Rare Galaxy at Dawn of Time"
NASA. Retrieved 2015-09-22. The redshift was z = 7.2, meaning the light of the galaxy took nearly 13 billion years to reach Earth and therefore its formation dates back to 750 million years after the Big Bang . It has a high rate of star formation, at a rate of 100 solar masses per year, or about 30 times more than the Milky Way that is 5 times larger and 100 times more massive.

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{{s-end Galaxies Ursa Major (constellation) Dwarf irregular galaxies Astronomical objects discovered in 2011

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