NASA locates most distant galaxy ever discovered

24 November Daily Telegraph

The most distant galaxy ever seen in the universe has been detected by NASA's Hubble and Spitzer space telescopes.Light from the newly discovered galaxy, which astronomers have named MACS0647-JD, reached Earth after travelling across space for 13.3 billion years.

It provides a window on what the galaxy looked like just 420 million years after the big bang, when the universe was only three per cent of its current age.