What was it like when the first galaxies began to form?

<p>Whenever you look out beyond the Milky Way today, as far as anyone&rsquo;s ever been able to see, there&rsquo;s no place you can look where you won&rsquo;t eventually find a galaxy. There are galaxies absolutely everywhere, in all directions and locations, even at the greatest cosmic distances ever probed. Even if you were to take a dark patch of sky without any known stars, galaxies, or matter of any type within it, if you leave your telescope&rsquo;s shutter long enough and you look in the proper wavelengths of light, thousands upon thousands of galaxies will be your reward. All told, there are&nbsp;<a href="https://bigthink.com/starts-with-a-bang/galaxies-in-universe/" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">estimated to be many trillions of galaxies</a>&nbsp;found within the observable Universe, stretching for tens of billions of light years in all directions.</p> <p><a href="https://medium.com/starts-with-a-bang/what-was-it-like-when-the-first-galaxies-began-to-form-1f3662c9b0b2"><strong>Read More</strong></a></p>
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