Thursday, January 27, 2011

Hubble Telescope Detects The Oldest Known Galaxy

The galaxy was already in existence 480 million years after the Big Bang.

From The BBC:

The Hubble Space Telescope has detected what scientists believe may be the oldest galaxy ever observed.

It is thought the galaxy is more than 13 billion years old and existed 480 million years after the Big Bang.

A Nasa team says this was a period when galaxy formation in the early Universe was going into "overdrive".

The image, which has been published in Nature journal, was detected using Hubble's recently installed wide field camera.

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My Comment: The Hubble telescope .... still going strong after all of these years.

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