With astronomers getting a glimpse of the most distant galaxy, a door to gaining precious new knowledge about the crucial evolutionary stages of the universe has been opened.

The newly discovered galaxy designated ms 1512-cB58 has a redshift of 6.56, which means it is about 14 billion light years away from the Earth. It belongs to a time when the universe was only about 780 million years old. This is about 50 million years earlier than the appearance of the most remote quasar