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VLT Smashes Record of Farthest Known Galaxy

rduke15 writes "From this press release of the European Southern Observatory : 'Named Abell 1835 IR1916, the newly discovered galaxy [...] is located about 13,230 million light-years away. It is therefore seen at a time when the Universe was merely 470 million years young[...].' More details and pictures here."

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  1. Re:It's expanding "Into" itself by Abcd1234 · · Score: 2, Insightful

    And how does this little diversion into set theory change the grandparent's point that the universe has no boundary, and hence cannot be expanding "into" anything?