Hubble Finds a Galaxy 12.8 Billion Years Old

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Posted by kdawson on Tuesday February 12, 2008 @07:39PM from the dark-ages dept.

I Don't Believe in Imaginary Property writes "Hubble's Near Infrared Camera and Multi-Object Spectrometer (NICMOS) has discovered the 12.8B year old galaxy now known as A1689-zD1. Using gravitational lensing of the massive Abell 1689 cluster of galaxies, they were able to find a surprisingly bright young galaxy from only 700 million years after the Big Bang, during the cosmic 'dark ages.' Researchers are itching to study the object with the upcoming Atacama Large Millimeter Array (to go online in 2012) and James Webb Space Telescope (to launch in 2013)."

Hubble Finds a Galaxy 12.8 Billion Years Old

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The galaxy commented only... (Score:5, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Tuesday February 12, 2008 @07:43PM (#22399784)

a desire for us to get off its lawn.

Re:Do they cut it in half and count the rings? (Score:4, Funny)

by jo42 ( 227475 ) writes: on Tuesday February 12, 2008 @07:54PM (#22399906) Homepage

They look it up in the Hitchhiker's Guide to The Galaxy - Universe Edition.

A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away.... (Score:3, Funny)

by Amphetam1ne ( 1042020 ) writes: on Tuesday February 12, 2008 @08:03PM (#22400022)

I can't be the only one that was thinking it after reading the title can I?

Re:Probably Doesn't Exist (Score:5, Funny)

by pizza_milkshake ( 580452 ) writes: on Tuesday February 12, 2008 @08:09PM (#22400082)

Worse yet: editors from their "news for nerds" website posted a similar article 10 billion years ago.

Re:Probably Doesn't Exist (Score:3, Funny)

by Mantaar ( 1139339 ) writes: on Tuesday February 12, 2008 @08:19PM (#22400172) Homepage

So let's call 'dupe' on this one?

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The galaxy commented only... (Score:5, Funny)

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A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away.... (Score:3, Funny)

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