Early Bloomer: Faraway Galaxy Pushes Cosmic View Closer to the Dawn of the Universe
Wednesday, October 20, 2010 - 13:00
in Astronomy & Space
Astronomers claim to have identified a galaxy in the distant universe that is farther away than any known object in space. The galaxy is so far away that, inasmuch as researchers can see such a faint object, they see it as it looked about 13 billion years ago, just 600 million years or so after the big bang; the light it emitted at that time is only now reaching Earth. [More]