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Monday, October 25, 2010

Galaxy is most distant object yet


Hubble Ultra Deep Field with UDFy-38135539 inset (Nasa/Esa)The faintest of faint dots - a signal from the edge of the observable Universe
A tiny faint dot in a Hubble picture has been confirmed as the most distant galaxy ever detected in the Universe.

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If you look at the object in the Hubble image, it really isn't much”
Matt LehnertObservatoire de Paris
This collection of stars is so far away its light has taken more than 13 billion years to arrive at Earth./.../

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