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Neat! Does someone know why there is a band of white/blue galaxies between the redshifted ones and the edge of the universe? I would've assumed it kept getting redder!

Those are quasars (which are why they are bluer). Beyond a certain distance galaxies become undetectable, but quasars are much brighter.

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