Reduce the celebrations for his twenty-fifth birthday, Hubble came across a startling discovery: the most distant galaxy ever detected from Earth until today. It is far more than 13 billion light-years away. The image therefore took a long time to get to get to be picked up by the telescope, and what we see in the photo is the galaxy in its early stages of evolution of the universe shortly after the Big Bang.
“In that time was only 670 million years old. The universe was still very young, “said Pascal Oesch, head of the team that conducted the research. “In the meantime it is already grown to a size of more than 15 percent of the mass of our Milky Way.”
The discovery was made possible by the Hubble photographs with those taken by two others telescopes, the Keck Observatory and NASA’s Spitzer. Scientists have named the new galaxy with little poetic name EGS-zs8-1.
Wednesday, May 6, 2015, 19:54 – Last Updated: May 7, 0:14
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