Astronomers find most distant galaxy candidate yet seen (w/ Video)
Wednesday, January 26, 2011 - 13:35
in Astronomy & Space
(PhysOrg.com) -- Pushing the Hubble Space Telescope to the limit of its technical ability, an international collaboration of astronomers have found what is likely to be the most distant and ancient galaxy ever seen, whose light has taken 13.2 billion years to reach us (a redshift of around 10).