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...