Latest Hubble find actually offers insight into creation
The American space agency today announced the discovery of the oldest and furthest-distant object yet resolved. If the observation is confirmed, then they have developed a fresh view into the dawn of the universe. The Hubble Space Telescope Science Institute, a subsidiary agency of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, announced today (at 1:00 p.m. EST) the deepest penetration yet into the far-distant sky. They claim to have identified a miniature galaxy, less than a hundredth the size of our own Galaxy, and 13.2 billion light-years distant. This last figure is a calculation from the object’s redshift (symbol: z), which they estimate to be as high as 10. (The higher the value of…
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Latest Hubble find actually offers insight into creation
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