Galaxy

Astronomers Discover Galaxy Located 13 Billion Light Years

AFP
THE astronomers has found faint galaxies. Distance of the galaxy is estimated to be about 13 billion light years from our earth.

That there is a small galaxy about 800 million years after the Big Bang created the universe is one among the 10 most distant celestial body is known.

"Picture it like a baby picture was taken of galaxies when the universe was only five percent of its present age," said astronomer James Rhoads of Arizona State University.

"Studying in a very early galaxies is important because it helps us understand how galaxies form and grow."

Rhoads and his colleagues used the IMACS instrument at Magellan Telescopes at Las Campanas Observatory of the Carnegie Institution in Chile to obtain images of galaxies.

They apply a special filter that limits the light into the telescope so that the detected only a narrow range of infrared wavelengths. This allows them to block all light except from the most distant objects.

"We have used this technique since 1998 and encouraged him to always increase the range and sensitivity in the search for the first galaxies at the edge of the universe," said researcher Sangeeta Malhotra of Arizona State University.

Farthest galaxy was dubbed LAEJ095950.99 021,219.1. The researchers reported their findings in the June 1 issue of The Astrophysical Journal Letters. (MI/Wrt3)