The new images, to be presented at an upcoming meeting of the American Physical Society, date back to when the universe was only 380,000 years old. The cosmos is now a more mature 13.8 billion years old,

New research by the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) collaboration has produced the clearest images yet of the universe's infancy—the earliest cosmic time yet accessible to humans. Measuring light that traveled for more than 13 billion years to reach a telescope high in the Chilean Andes,