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An international team of astronomers has detected the most
distant galaxy yet.
The galaxy is about 30 billion light-years away and is helping scientists shed light on the period that immediately followed the Big Bang.
It was found using the Hubble Space Telescope and its distance was then confirmed with the Keck Observatory in Hawaii back on Earth.
The far-off galaxy goes by the catchy name of z8_GND_5296.
Because it takes light so long
to travel from the outer edge of the Universe to us, the galaxy appears as it
was 13.1 billion years ago.
Lead researcher Steven
Finkelstein, from the University of Texas at Austin, US said: "One very
interesting way to learn about the Universe is to study these outliers and that
tells us something about what sort of physical processes are dominating galaxy
formation and galaxy evolution."
He added that in the coming
years, astronomers are likely to discover even more distant galaxies when Nasa's
James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is launched and other ground-based telescopes
come online.
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