Astronomers claim to find the most distant known galaxies
CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY NEWS RELEASE
Posted: July 12, 2007
PASADENA, Calif. - Using natural "gravitational lenses," an international team of astronomers claim to have found the first traces of a population of the most distant galaxies yet seen-the light we see from them today left more than 13 billion years ago, when the universe was just 500 million years old.