Oct 21
According to an article in the latest issue of the weekly science journal Nature, a newly discovered galaxy has “smashed the record for the most distant object ever observed. The galaxy is more than 4 billion parsecs away. A parsec, for those keeping track, is roughly 19 trillion miles.
The galaxy was discovered using spectroscopic observations in a patch of sky that scientists have deemed the Hubble Ultra Deep Field. The sheer distance of the thing offers scientists some insight into the early days of our universe.
Says Nature,
The object sheds light on the nature of the sources that stripped electrons from hydrogen atoms during the reionization epoch.
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