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Farthest Galaxy Detected
Caltech researchers have reported the detection of the farthest object yet, galaxy EGS8p7. At more than 13.2 billion years old, it provides a fascinating glimpse of the very early universe, just 600 million years after the Big Bang.
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That should state 600 million years after the Big Bang, not 600 thousand. Good article though.
Thanks, I fixed it. I pulled the summary directly from the website and didn't realize they had made a mistake.
Journalists are notoriously bad at Math, especially dealing with orders of magnitude.
The author is a science writer at Caltech, so I'd be inclined to discount this one as a brain fart. :)