Hubble Sees Tribe of Baby Galaxies 13+ Billion Light Years Away 60
The Bad Astronomer writes "Using Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have spotted seven galaxies that are all over 13 billion light years away... including one that appears to be a record breaker at a staggering 13.3+ billion light years distant. That one is seen as it was only 380 million years after the Big Bang. This observation reaches into the era of the young cosmos when stars were first forming, and allows astronomers to better understand what the Universe was like back then — a time we know very little about."
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Just think about it... these galaxies have been around for billions of years longer than ours. That means that any planets kicking around in there are going to have had billions of years longer to evolve than our little blue planet.
You apparently don't realize that the oldest known star in our galaxy is 13.2 Gy old (implying that our galaxy is at least that old).