Hubble Breaks Record in Search for Farthest Supernova
Thursday, April 4, 2013 - 09:30
in Astronomy & Space
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has broken the record in the quest to find the farthest supernova of the type used to measure cosmic distances. The supernova exploded more than 10 billion years ago (redshift 1.914). At that time, the universe was in its early formative years where stars were being born at a rapid rate.