Beyond The Fog Of Time Most Distant Galaxy Ever Unvieled

Paris, France (ESO) Oct 21, 2010 ![][1] A European team of astronomers led by Paris Observatory CNRS Director of Research Matthew Lehnert using ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) has measured the distance to the most remote galaxy so far. By carefully analyzing the very faint glow of the galaxy they have found that they are seeing it when the Universe was only about 600 million years old (a redshift of 8.6), or 4.4% of its present age o

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