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    Posted: 21 Oct 2010 at 10:09am
And we're seeing it as it was 13 billion years ago!
 
Thats just 600 million yeras after the big bang!
 
It was a 48 hour Hubble exposure. 
 
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Hubble%20Ultra%20Deep%20Field%20with%20UDFy-38135539%20inset%20%28Nasa/Esa%29 The faintest of faint dots - a signal from the edge of the observable Universe

A tiny faint dot in a Hubble picture has been confirmed as the most distant galaxy ever detected in the Universe.

If you look at the object in the Hubble image, it really isn't much”

This collection of stars is so far away its light has taken more than 13 billion years to arrive at Earth.

Astronomers used the Very Large Telescope in Chile to follow up the Hubble observation and make the necessary detailed measurements.

They tell the journal Nature that we are seeing the galaxy as it was just 600 million years after the Big Bang.

 
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