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The newly discovered 44 stars — the largest collective of stars ever observed in the distant universe — belong to a distant, hidden galaxy whose light has been warped into the strikingly long tendril in the center-left of the image, nicknamed the Dragon. Light from the Dragon's home galaxy began journeying throughwas half its present age.
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