Model Boat Mayhem
Mess Deck: General Section => Chit-Chat => Topic started by: justboatonic on October 20, 2010, 09:04:24 pm
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Most distant from our island Earth that is!
Some 13.1 billion LY away in fact and reckoned to have formed just 600 million years after the big bang. Sorry, I cant be bothered to produce a science paper for those who want one to support such claims. They'll just have to go with the article.
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn19603-dim-galaxy-is-the-most-distant-object-in-the-universe.html
A faint glow first spotted by the Hubble Space Telescope belongs to a galaxy that is the most distant object yet found, new observations suggest. The galaxy helps provide a window into the primordial cosmos, when a thick fog gave way to the transparent universe we see today.
The Hubble Space Telescope's Wide Field Camera 3 picked up the object as a dim infrared blob in observations made in August and September 2009.
It was suspected to be a very distant galaxy because its light is strongly reddened or skewed towards longer wavelengths, as expected for light that has travelled for billions of years to reach Earth. The intervening expansion of the universe stretches light waves, pushing them to longer, redder wavelengths.