Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. The answer keeps changing as astronomers compete to find new galaxies which top the list. The new record holder is now the faint red smudge indicated in the above image by the arrow. Young galaxies are of much interest to astronomers because many unanswered questions exist on when and how galaxies formed in the early universe . Although this galaxy's distance exceeds that of even the farthest known quasar , it is still in front of the pervasive glowing gas that is now seen as the cosmic microwave background radiation .
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