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Early Universe: Tiny emissary from afar

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The combined power of a space telescope, a large ground-based telescope and a gravitational lens made catching a small galaxy — 1/100 the mass of the Milky Way — at the cosmic reionization epoch feasible.

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Figure 1: Schematic diagram of the cosmic reionization epoch.

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  1. Nobunari Kashikawa is at the Optical and Infrared Astronomy Division, National Astronomical Observatory of Japan, 2-21-1, Osawa, Mitaka, Tokyo, 181-8588, Japan.,

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