Hubble Finds Farthest, Oldest Galaxies Ever Seen | Wired Science
Reblogged from Wired January 5th, 2010 at 10:49 pm Notes #space #hubble #galaxies #astronomy #scienceBy pushing the refurbished Hubble Space Telescope to its very limits as a cosmic time machine, astronomers have identified three galaxies that may hail from an era only a few hundred million years after the Big Bang. The faint galaxies may be the most distant starlit bodies known, each lying some 13.2 billion light-years from Earth.
