Distant galaxy discovered

PARIS – French and Swiss astronomers say they have detected the farthest galaxy ever observed, a glimmer that dates back to when the universe was still in its infancy.

The galaxy, dubbed Abell 1835 IR1916, is 13,23 billion light-years from Earth – beating by a chunk another galaxy that until now was believed to be the farthest known object, said France’s state-funded National Center for Scientific Research, a major European research organisations. Because light from the new find took 13,23 billion years to reach us across the vastness of space, astronomers are seeing the galaxy as it was back then.The universe, believed to have started with the Big Bang some 13,7 billion years ago, would still have been in its infancy.”It is as if we are seeing the childhood of the galaxy,” Roser Pello, a member of the team that found it, told The Associated Press on Monday.”It’s a galaxy that is starting to form.”The galaxy is in the Virgo constellation and, in space terms, is tiny.It is at least 10 times smaller than our own galaxy, the Milky Way, and has one ten-thousandth of its mass, said Daniel Schaerer of the Geneva Observatory, another member of the team.- Nampa-APBecause light from the new find took 13,23 billion years to reach us across the vastness of space, astronomers are seeing the galaxy as it was back then.The universe, believed to have started with the Big Bang some 13,7 billion years ago, would still have been in its infancy.”It is as if we are seeing the childhood of the galaxy,” Roser Pello, a member of the team that found it, told The Associated Press on Monday.”It’s a galaxy that is starting to form.”The galaxy is in the Virgo constellation and, in space terms, is tiny.It is at least 10 times smaller than our own galaxy, the Milky Way, and has one ten-thousandth of its mass, said Daniel Schaerer of the Geneva Observatory, another member of the team.- Nampa-AP