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Hubble Finds a Galaxy 12.8 Billion Years Old

Posted by kdawson on from the dark-ages dept.

I Don't Believe in Imaginary Property writes "Hubble's Near Infrared Camera and Multi-Object Spectrometer (NICMOS) has discovered the 12.8B year old galaxy now known as A1689-zD1. Using gravitational lensing of the massive Abell 1689 cluster of galaxies, they were able to find a surprisingly bright young galaxy from only 700 million years after the Big Bang, during the cosmic 'dark ages.' Researchers are itching to study the object with the upcoming Atacama Large Millimeter Array (to go online in 2012) and James Webb Space Telescope (to launch in 2013)."

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  1. The galaxy commented only... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    a desire for us to get off its lawn.

  2. Re:Probably Doesn't Exist by pizza_milkshake · · Score: 4, Funny

    Worse yet: editors from their "news for nerds" website posted a similar article 10 billion years ago.