Oldest, Most Distant Object Spotted
04.29.09 |
Astronomers at NASA say a stellar explosion has provided a glimpse of the oldest and most distant object in the universe. They announced yesterday that the ten-second gamma-ray burst observed last Thursday is from a star that died 13.1 billion light-years away. That surpassed old records by 100 or 200 million light-years. The explosion of high-powered radiation was detected by the space agency's Swift satellite.
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