Hubble Space Telescope captures oldest galaxy so far
OCT 22, 2010
DOI: 10.1063/PT.5.024768
New York Times : Astronomers believe they’ve found a galaxy from 13.1 billion years ago. The oldest and most distant object seen so far, UDFy-38135539 appears as a small smudge of light in a Hubble Space Telescope photograph. The Paris Observatory’s Matthew Lehnert, lead author of the study published in the journal Nature , and fellow European astronomers calculated the age after 16 hours of observations from a telescope in Chile. “We’re looking at the universe when it was a 20th of its current age,” said Caltech astronomy professor Richard Ellis. The finding is important because it fits with theories about when the first stars and galaxies were born.
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