2006-09-02 03:33:14 · 5 answers · asked by dundeeflower_4 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
I am an Astronomer so I got to contact different
observatories to find the answer for you .. here is what I got from the Mauna Kea database ..
Abell 1835 IR1916
The new claimed record holder is now the faint smudge indicated in the above images by an 8.2-meter Very Large Telescope (VLT) operating in Chile. Detected light left this galaxy 13.2 billion of years ago, well before the Earth formed, when the universe was younger than 3 percent of its present age.
Located 13.23 billion light-years from Earth.
Astronomers have estimated a redshift of 10 for this galaxy, the first double-digit claim for any galaxy. Young galaxies are of much interest to astronomers because many unanswered questions exist on when and how galaxies formed in the early universe. The distant redshift, if confirmed, would also give valuable information about galaxy surroundings at the end of the universe's dark age. Although this galaxy's distance exceeds that of even the farthest known quasar, it is still in front of the pervasive glowing gas that is now seen as the cosmic microwave background radiation.
2006-09-02 07:00:22 · answer #1 · answered by spaceprt 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Abell 1835 IR1916, and it is 13.23 billion light-years from Earth or 3/4 of the way farther than my home world. Thanks to telescopic technologies such as Hubble we can now look so far into space we are actually looking back into time (theoretical statement based on the expansion of the universe theory and known scientific knowledge of the way light travels through space)
2006-09-02 10:37:58 · answer #2 · answered by fromaplanetfar 1 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Kewl pics at
http://www.seds.org/hst/97-25.html
Doug
2006-09-02 12:07:50 · answer #3 · answered by doug_donaghue 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
a galaxy chocolate on the moon
2006-09-02 10:35:30 · answer #4 · answered by what's up 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
MY AS*
2006-09-02 11:30:33 · answer #5 · answered by Man 5 · 0⤊ 3⤋