Friday, January 28, 2011

The Faint Red Blob: Most Distant Galaxy Ever Discovered!

The Faint Red Blob: Most Distant Galaxy Ever Discovered!: "Astronomers have used Hubble to spot what they think is the furthest and one of the very earliest galaxies ever seen in the Universe. Candidate galaxy UDFj-39546284 appears as a faint red blob in this ultra deep field exposure taken with the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. This is the deepest infrared image taken of the Universe. Based on the object’s colour, astronomers believe that its light has taken 13.2 billion years to reach us. The current known age of the Universe is 13.7 billion years."

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