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Z8 GND 5296 z8_GND_5296 is a galaxy discovered in October 2013 which has the highest redshift that has been confirmed through the Lyman-alpha emission line of hydrogen placing it among the oldest and most distant known galaxies at approximately 13.1 gigalight-years (4.0×109 pc) from Earth. It is seen as it was at a time just 700 million years after the Big Bang […] when the universe was only about 5 percent of its current age of 13.8 billion years.
