It’s been a good few weeks for spotting distant objects in the universe. As Forbes notes, Japanese researchers have detected what might be the most distant galaxy known to date.…
HD1, object in red, appears at the center of a zoom-in image. Credit: Harikane et al. Shining only ~300 million years after the Big Bang, it may be home to…
HD1, object in red, appears at the center of a zoom-in image. Credit: Harikane et al. Shining only ~300 million years after the Big Bang, it may be home to…
HD1, object in red, appears at the center of a zoom-in image. Credit: Harikane et al. Shining only ~300 million years after the Big Bang, it may be home to…
HD1, object in red, appears at the center of a zoom-in image. Credit: Harikane et al. Shining only ~300 million years after the Big Bang, it may be home to…
HD1, object in red, appears at the center of a zoom-in image. Credit: Harikane et al. Shining only ~300 million years after the Big Bang, it may be home to…
Astronomers have been leapfrogging each other into the past lately. Last week, a group using the Hubble Space Telescope announced they had discovered what could be the most distant and…
Researchers have spotted what might be the farthest astronomical object ever found — a galaxy candidate named HD1 that they estimate is 13.5 billion light-years away. That’s an astonishing 100 million…
HD1, object in red, appears at the center of a zoom-in image. Credit: Harikane et al. An international team of astronomers, including researchers at the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard…