NASA's Hubble Finds Most Distant Galaxy Candidate Ever Seen in Universe

Astronomers have pushed NASA's Hubble Space Telescope to its limits by finding what they believe is the most distant, ancient object ever seen in the universe. Its light traveled 13.2 billion years to reach Hubble, roughly 150 million years longer than the previous record holder. The age of the universe is 13.7 billion years. The dim object is a tiny, compact galaxy of blue stars that existed 480 million years after the big bang, only four percent of the universe's current age. It is so small, more than one hundred similarly-sized mini-galaxies would be needed to make up our Milky Way.

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[luckyluke1232]

imagine the technology we could be able to make if we wouldn't spend so much time and money on stupid things like wars

[NATEandtheMONKEY]

Looks as though one religitard has watched so far

[lmonto]

thats crazy far but we'll never get there but hopfully in the future we can see farther images and clear i hate blurry pictures we need to make better technology. even though we only been on this planet for a couple of thousand of years! imagine how old those galaxy r and if there is life on them imagine how many years there advance then us millions of years. so we have a long ways to go hahaha!

[FallofDarkness55]

@NATEandtheMONKEY it's three now. I don't see any mystic nature to the universe whatsoever so i don't know why religion exists.

[MrKzim95]

the image that nasa's hubble space telescope see right now is happened 13.7 billion year ago... FFFFFFFFFFFF

[supergsx]

I can't stand religious nutjobs who look at this and get angry because it supports the BIG BANG THEORY. At the very least you can say that when God created the universe, what happened? THE BIG BANG!

I find it to be some of the most beautiful stuff a person can ever witness. The universe is like a living thing!

[greyfreedom]

si energia es igual a la masa por la velocidad de la luz al cuadrado entonces la energia podria? ser = a la velocidad de la Luz al INFINITO?

[acr08807]

@bass109 Jesus may have said that he created the universe, but he was an admitted liar.

[bass109]

big bang never happened. It is false. Jesus christ created the universe. True then every word.

[IWantHerINeedHer]

@vika01 Well, I try to think of the "big bang" as an event after (in the sense that time exists in the parallel that caused the "big bang")... it's the only the only probable theory so far that can explain our expanding universe. I like "The Big Expansion" better!

[IWantHerINeedHer]

@bass109 It's very simple. God the Universe created itself!

[IWantHerINeedHer]

@daniyal177 "he" exists?