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Oldest Space Object To Date

Posted by michael on from the galaxy-far-far-away dept.

Wind Walker writes "CNN has an excellent article regarding a recently-discovered galaxy that's more than 14 billion light years away. "So what?", you're probably asking. Well, this galaxy (unnamed at the time) is said to have formed during the cosmic Dark Age (between 500 million and 1 billion years after the Big Bang) when no galaxies should have been giving off light."

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  1. On the subject of the universe... by rehannan · · Score: 4, Interesting
    There's a pretty interesting article in the April issue of Discover Magazine entitled Guth's Grand Guess (only in print, not online) theorizing on the birth of the universe.

    Where did everything come from? Don't say, "the Big Bang." To say that everything came from the Big Bang is like saying babies come from maternity wards--true in a narrow sense, but it hardly goes back far enough. Where did the stuff that went "bang" come from? What was it? Why did it bang?