Astronomers Identify Very Distant (But Not the Most Distant) Galaxy

Credit: NAOJ The universe is a big place, and by peering across it astronomers get to look back in time . A galaxy or supernova so far away that it takes two billion years for its light to reach us will be seen here as it appeared two billion years ago. Remarkably, today s best telescopes can look across the majority of cosmic time, spying on galaxies as they looked just hundreds of millions of years after the big bang.

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Astronomers Identify Very Distant (But Not the Most Distant) Galaxy