Astronomers have discovered a galaxy so remote that the light reaching Earth left the body some 13.6 billion years ago. That makes the find the most distant object ever detected.
If the universe is now 14.5 billion years old, then astronomers are seeing the galaxy as it appeared when the cosmos was just one-sixteenth of its current age, says codiscoverer Richard G.
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