What you're looking at above is an artist's rendering of UDFy-38135539, the most ancient space object we've been able to locate to date.
It's about 160 million years older than the previous oldest galaxy, which was found back in 2006. The most exciting part? Astronomers speculate that the oldest galaxies formed as early as 200 million years after the Big Bang, meaning we've got a whole lot of discovering still ahead of us.
Imagine what we'll be able to find with the technology in 10 or 20 years.
ReplyDeletewonder what the artist had to base the rendering on?
ReplyDeleteinteresant!
ReplyDeletewow this is awesome news, imagine the advanced life in that galaxy.
ReplyDeleteThat is beautiful. I wonder what it looks like now, if it exists at all?
ReplyDeleteI heard about this, pretty amazing
ReplyDeleteWow. So basically, it's incomprehensibly old. Haha.
ReplyDeletei want one of those objects
ReplyDeleteThat's awesome!
ReplyDeleteevey found... YET !
ReplyDeleteIt's scary how much stuff is out there that we will never know about.
ReplyDeletevery cool! and very nice render also ;)
ReplyDeleteWow makes you think how much other great stuff is out there that we will probably never experience.
ReplyDeleteAwesome!
ReplyDeleteLooks really old
ReplyDeletewow, incredible stuff man.
ReplyDeleteGreat thing, but also a little bit wary.,
ReplyDeletecrazy!
ReplyDeleteI love astronomy, will be stopping by daily for some good info.
ReplyDeleteKinda reminds you just how tiny and insignificant we really are.
ReplyDeleteIf people can't see that there isn't life out there just by looking at what we can see, then they are nuts....
ReplyDeleteImagine if there was another Earth in that galaxy and they're looking through their telescopes at us and wondering if there is life. Mind warp.
ReplyDeletesounds alright, ;D
ReplyDeleteit looks pretty gay, i thought it would of look more badass being an ancient object
ReplyDeleteI hope the artist was at least an astrophysicist.
ReplyDeletewow, even older than larry king.
ReplyDeleteRead about this earlier. Really cool news!
ReplyDeleteThis is incredible. Love space-related images
ReplyDeleteMakes me wonder about the planets in said galaxy...What is there? Ya know?
ReplyDeletefantastic!!
ReplyDeleteThat is amusen!
ReplyDeleteImagine, how old could be Universe?
freaking awesome, I wonder what we'll discover next
ReplyDeleteI love astronomy ;]
ReplyDeleteI wish I was born later so I could pop into space whenever I feel like it.
ReplyDelete"And it's only 600 million years younger than the universe itself."
Don't you mean 600 million years older? :)
what ever it is, it looks amazing :D
ReplyDeletefantastic news! Keep'em coming!
ReplyDeleteI hope we make massive advances in space travel in my lifetime...
ReplyDeleteReally shows how insignificant we are compared to how old the universe is..
ReplyDeleteit's probably destroyed by now :/
ReplyDeleteI still don't understand why people get excited about these things. We know there's old stuff out there, it's hardly surprising.
ReplyDeleteI thought the oldest space object was Joan Collins' lady parts.
ReplyDeletegreat post
ReplyDeleteWoah that is freaking awesome! Cool picture too :O
ReplyDeleteThat thing looks beautiful.
ReplyDeleteWhen i see this, I realize how small we are...
ReplyDeletethis makes me sad I will not live to explore space myself :(
ReplyDeletejust amazing like this so much
ReplyDeleteAmazing how old it is and it still looks that amazing.
ReplyDeleteThis is great
ReplyDeleteits beautiful... *single tear rolls down cheek*
ReplyDeletesome crazy numbers hah?
ReplyDeleteThat looks incredible!
ReplyDeleteInteresting. Now only if we could travel to other solar systems, we'd be 1/10th of the way to exploring such a galaxy
ReplyDeleteMakes me feel so tiny.
ReplyDeleteHow do they know how old light is? o-o
ReplyDeleteHallucinant
ReplyDeletewow!..
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