The Most Chemically Pristine Galaxy Ever Seen, 13 Billion Years Back

LAP1-B has just 1/240th the oxygen of the Sun, the lowest ever measured in a galaxy

Its light left when the universe was only 800 million years old

A galaxy cluster acted as a natural lens, magnifying it about 100 times

Its entire stellar mass is under 3,300 Suns, mostly wrapped in dark matter

It may be the living ancestor of the faint 'fossil' dwarf galaxies near the Milky Way

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