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Oldest and Distant object??
Last week, astronomers discovered the most oldest and distant object (cluster of stars, dust and gas) using Hubble and calculated that it is 13.2 billion light years away from earth[1]. I am not really sure how this is correct? Based on the fact that our universe is about 13.68 billion years old, if light from that newly identified distant object would have originated 13.2 billion years ago, considering the fact 13.2 billion years ago Earth and that object would have been a maximum of only 480 million light years away to each other and hence the light would have actually reached Earth in 480 million years! Right?? If so, how they are observing something that happened 480 million years after BB?
[1] http://www.cbsnews.com/network/news...les/aec546e66f53a7b44390052c1e751d6b-151.html
Last week, astronomers discovered the most oldest and distant object (cluster of stars, dust and gas) using Hubble and calculated that it is 13.2 billion light years away from earth[1]. I am not really sure how this is correct? Based on the fact that our universe is about 13.68 billion years old, if light from that newly identified distant object would have originated 13.2 billion years ago, considering the fact 13.2 billion years ago Earth and that object would have been a maximum of only 480 million light years away to each other and hence the light would have actually reached Earth in 480 million years! Right?? If so, how they are observing something that happened 480 million years after BB?
[1] http://www.cbsnews.com/network/news...les/aec546e66f53a7b44390052c1e751d6b-151.html