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Astronomers find galaxy born at dawn of the universe
By Agence France-Presse
Wednesday, September 19, 2012 16:14 EDT
PARIS Astronomers in Europe and the United States said on Wednesday they had spotted the farthest and oldest galaxy ever found, a star cluster 13.2 billion light years away.
Light reaching Earth today from galaxy MACS 1149-JD is truly ancient, they reported in the British journal Nature.
The rays were sent out 490 million years after the Big Bang that created the Universe some 13.7 billion years ago.
PARIS Astronomers in Europe and the United States said on Wednesday they had spotted the farthest and oldest galaxy ever found, a star cluster 13.2 billion light years away.
Light reaching Earth today from galaxy MACS 1149-JD is truly ancient, they reported in the British journal Nature.
The rays were sent out 490 million years after the Big Bang that created the Universe some 13.7 billion years ago.
We estimate that it (the galaxy) formed less than 200 million years after the Big Bang, the team said.
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villager
(26,001 posts)Wormhole, perhaps? Folds in space/time?
Posteritatis
(18,807 posts)villager
(26,001 posts)...on the 490 millionth birthday year of the universe. Okay, tracking now...
FLyellowdog
(4,276 posts)Blue Owl
(49,938 posts)Kidding, of course...
bongbong
(5,436 posts)According to the repigs.
After all, the light had to travel a lot faster than light-speed to get to earth in 6000 years from so far away.