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by Jon Markoff SAN FRANCISCO — Inside a darkened theater a viewer floats in a redwood forest displayed with Imax-like clarity on a cavernous overhead scre The hovering sensation gives way to vertigo as the camera dives deeper into the forest, approaches a branch of a giant redwood tree...

In Hubble’s Lens, Signs of a Galaxy Older and Farther Than Any Other By DENNIS OVERBYE Published: January 26, 2011 Leapfrogging into the past with the refurbished Hubble Space Telescope, a team of astronomers says it has detected what may be the most distant and earliest galaxy yet found. It...