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The farther backwards you can look, the farther forwards you are likely to see. Winston Churchill
Sometimes, we point our most powerful telescopes at the sky, peering as deeply as we possibly can, hoping to shed some light on what the Universe was like oh-so-long ago, as close to the big bang as we can. The Hubble Space Telescope can get us distant galaxies as they were just a few billion years after the big bang.
Last year, astronomers thought they'd seen a gamma ray burst, but another team of astronomers has now found it to be the reflection off a piece of space junk.