Astronomers detect earliest galaxies

Wednesday, January 6, 2010 - 06:56 in Astronomy & Space

Astronomers, using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, have broken the distance limit for galaxies by uncovering a primordial population of compact and ultra-blue galaxies that have never been seen before. They are from 13 billion years ago, just 600 to 800 million years after the Big Bang...

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