Zooming in on the Most Distant Galaxy Ever Measured
October 22, 2010
Astronomers using ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) have measured the distance to the most remote galaxy so far, UDFy-38135539, which we see as it was when the Universe was only about 600 million years old (a redshift of 8.6). credit: ESO
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Technology Internet, Physical cosmology, Astronomy, Physics, Redshift survey, Abell 1835 IR1916, Redshift, Galaxy, Very Large Telescope, European Southern Observatory, Telescopes
