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Astronomers unveil 'baby pictures' of the first stars and galaxies

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New images reveal the universe when it was 380,000 years old , the equivalent of hours-old baby pictures of a now middle-aged cosmos.

The research shows both the intensity and polarization of the earliest light after the Big Bang with unprecedented clarity.

The new measurements have also refined the estimate of the age of the universe, finding it to be 13.8 billion years old .