Astronomers explore 'last blank space' on map of the Universe
Wednesday, October 28, 2009 - 16:49
in Astronomy & Space
(PhysOrg.com) -- The most distant object ever discovered is described in this week's edition of the science journal Nature. Two international teams of astronomers report their observations of a gamma-ray burst from a star that died when the Universe was 640 million years old, or less than 5 percent of its present age.