Four galaxies examined by the Hubble telescope date to a mere 500 million years after the big bang, but are so bright they offer scientists a new window into that early stage of the universe.
A quartet of galaxies spied with NASA's Hubble Space Telescope are among the oldest yet discovered — more than 13 billion years old, born just 500 million years after the big bang. They're also incredibly bright, so luminous that they offer a new peek into the early universe.
via L.A. Times - Science http://feeds.latimes.com/~r/latimes/news/science/~3/0KYQtNvJv2w/la-sci-hubble-galaxies-20140108,0,763435.story
A quartet of galaxies spied with NASA's Hubble Space Telescope are among the oldest yet discovered — more than 13 billion years old, born just 500 million years after the big bang. They're also incredibly bright, so luminous that they offer a new peek into the early universe.
via L.A. Times - Science http://feeds.latimes.com/~r/latimes/news/science/~3/0KYQtNvJv2w/la-sci-hubble-galaxies-20140108,0,763435.story
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