Galaxy at redshift z=8.6 (the actual paper)

[marcus]

http://arxiv.org/abs/1010.4312

This is the actual paper that was published yesterday in Nature magazine.
Good show ESO!

Galaxy is now 3.1 billion years old. The baby picture that European Southern took of it is when the universe had been expanding for only 600 million years.

 

[sylas]

http://arxiv.org/abs/1010.4312

This is the actual paper that was published yesterday in Nature magazine.
Good show ESO!

Galaxy is now 3.1 billion years old. The baby picture that European Southern took of it is when the universe had been expanding for only 600 million years.

I presume there's a 1 missing there, and the galaxy is now 13.1 billion years old.

This is pretty amazing stuff. Thanks for the link -- sylas