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NASA Discovers Most Distant Galaxy In Known Universe

An anonymous reader writes with this snippet from cbc.ca: "'NASA's Hubble and Spitzer space telescopes (not to be outdone by the Kepler Space Telescope) have discovered the most distant galaxy identified so far in the universe... the galaxy is 13.3 billion light years away and only a tiny fraction of the size of the Milky Way. Due to the time it takes light to travel through space, the images seen from Earth now show what the galaxy looked like when the universe was just 420 million years old, according to a press statement released from NASA. The newly discovered galaxy (is) named MACS0647-JD."

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  1. timothy is a stoner by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    posted at 5:20, which is 4:20 somewhere!
    article has the number 420 in it.
    all our comment numbers start with #420...