'We almost didn't believe it at first...'
— because of a fortuitous alignment behind a galaxy cluster that created a gravitational lens effect that magnified the incredibly distant celestial body.
"Normally at these distances, entire galaxies look like small smudges, with the light from millions of stars blending together," Welch said. "The galaxy hosting this star has been magnified and distorted by gravitational lensing into a long crescent that we named the Sunrise Arc.", provides a glimpse into the universe during a little-understood era when the entire composition of stars may well have been different.
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