In 2010, a French team using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope claimed to have
discovered a galaxy from 13.1 billion light-years ago and last year a
California team using Hubble said they saw a galaxy from 13.2 billion
light-years ago. Both Hubble teams published findings in the journal Nature.
However, the two Hubble teams have yet to confirm their findings with other
methods, said Ellis. Also, a team of Arizona State University astronomers
this month claimed to have found a galaxy from 13 billion light-years away.
They used a telescope in Chile.
Current theory holds that the universe was born of an explosion, called the
Big Bang, about 13.7 billion years ago. So astronomers using the most
powerful telescopes available are peering deeper and deeper into that dawn
of the universe.
Source: agencies
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