Astronomers have discovered a young galaxy that is the farthest ever seen. It is 13,100 million light years away and is among the first generation of galaxies in the universe
Scientists at Yale and University of California at Santa Cruz used three telescopes to spot and then calculate the age of the galaxy blurred. They found it, called EGS-zs8-1, dates back some 670 million years after the Primordial Explosion (Big Bang) that gave birth to the universe.
The astronomer Garth Illingworth of the University of California said that the galaxy has only 100 million years and that is generating stars at high speed.
The galaxy is in the constellation Bootes.
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