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Record-Breaking Galaxy Found In Deep Hubble Image

Posted by samzenpus on from the old-neighborhood dept.

The Bad Astronomer writes "Astronomers using Hubble Space Telescope have found a galaxy at the very edge of the Universe: the light from this far-flung object has been traveling a whopping 13.1 billion years to get here! The galaxy appears as a non-descript dot in the infrared Hubble Ultra Deep Field taken using the Wide Field Camera 3, but a spectrum taken using a ground-based telescope confirms that we're seeing this object as it was a mere 600 million years after the Big Bang itself."

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  1. Re:Record breaking by hcs_$reboot · · Score: 0, Troll

    Record of flaws injected in such a space device, or record of servicing and reparations?

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  2. Only is Hubble's Law is valid by anarkhos · · Score: 0, Troll

    Only if you buy into Hubble's Law, which various anomalies (most involving quasars) should give one pause.

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