Ancient Elliptical Galaxies Reveal Secrets of the Early Universe (Today's Most Popular)

Ancient Elliptical Galaxies Reveal Secrets of the Early Universe (Today's Most Popular): "Could the Universe be much older than we think? Early on its life it appears that our Universe was a place of puzzling extremes and seeming contradictions. That’s the conclusion scientists are drawing from new infrared observations of a very distant, unusually bright and massive elliptical galaxy. This galaxy was spotted 10 billion light years away, and gives us a glimpse of what the Universe looked like when it was only about one-quarter of its current age."