Monday, March 07, 2016

13+ Billion Year Old Galaxy Photographed by Hubble


An international team of astronomers, using NASA's Hubble space telescope, has set a new
distance record by measuring the farthest galaxy ever seen in the universe.

This infant galaxy, located in the direction of the constellation of Ursa Major, named GN-z11, was photographed as it was seen 13.4 billion years ago, just 400 million years after the Big Bang.


Full NASA article can be read HERE

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