A team of astronomers have discovered the most distant galaxy from Earth to date, more than 13 billion light years away.
Researchers from Yale University and UC Santa Cruz found the bright cluster stars, dubbed the EGS-zs8-1, from the W.M. Keck Observatory in Hawaii. Although the galaxy was first spotted in images taken by the Hubble and Spitzer space telescopes, the team used the new MOSFIRE (Multi-Object Spectrograph for Infrared Exploration) instrument on the Keck’s 10-metre telescope to observe light shifts pinpointing its location.
By: Daniel Culpan,
