Wed, 26 Jan 2011
Washington - Astronomers have pinpointed the most distant galaxy ever seen using the Hubble Space Telescope, according to findings to be published in the journal Nature on Thursday.
The galaxy is some 13.2 billion light-years away and sheds new light on the early universe.
The view of the galaxy provides a glimpse of what the universe looked like just 480 million years after the Big Bang - the earliest yet observed, researchers said.
"We are getting back very close to the first galaxies," said astronomer Garth Illingworth of the University of California at Santa Cruz.
Illingworth and his colleague Rychard Bouwens used Hubble's Wide Field Planetary Camera 3 to track changes in galaxies from 480 to 650 million years after the Big Bang and found a rapid increase in the number of stars being formed during this period.
Source: Earth Times.
Link: http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/news/364392,distant-galaxy-ever-seen.html.
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