OBSERVATION: Eight distant infant galaxies -- essentially giant globs of hydrogen with a few hot young stars -- lie inside a thin filament, visualized with a computer overlay. The hot stars make the hydrogen glow. Other objects in the image are nearer galaxies or stars.

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