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The galaxy Abell 1835 IR1916 is one of the most distant ever observed. It is only visible from Earth due to the effects of gravitational lensing caused by a galaxy cluster at a smaller distance along the line of sight. It is believed to lie at a distance of 13.2 billion light years, meaning we are seeing it as it was just 500 million years after the Big Bang.
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