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With the objective of forging connections and advancing our comprehension of the cosmos, the inaugural meeting of NoRMAS24 took place at the Institute of Theoretical Astrophysics last week.

"I just think galaxies are really, really, cool! I mean have you seen pictures? Who wouldn’t want to know more about those things?", Bendix Hagedorn, new Ph.D. student at the Institute of Theoretical Astrophysics.

"It is really cool to quantitatively describe things in the sky using physical theories developed on earth" - Cheng-Zong Ruan, new postdoc at ITA.

– The night sky is so much prettier once you start to understand the physics behind the light reaching us from distant objects.

"Living in Scandinavia was also a personal dream, since I have always admired the lifestyle and the well-being generally associated to these countries" - Davide Decataldo.

"The favourite part of my job is the collection, reduction and analysis of observational data. I particularly enjoy the process of “cleaning” and exploring the data to reveal their hidden information."

Håkon Dahle (ITA/UiO) and his international team observed straight into the bright and hot heart of a galaxy 11 billion years old in no less than 12 multiple, gravitationally lensed images. The finding casts light onto a crucial era in our universe’s history: the epoch of reionization.