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The Christian Science Monitor
A new galaxy that may have helped awaken the universe
"... Hubble had to stare at the same spot in space for 15 hours and the Keck scopes for two full nights before they could collect enough faint photons to register useful images and gather tantalizing spectra. Moreover, the galaxy's great distance means that it is speeding away from earthbound observers as the universe continues to expand. At 13 billion light-years distant, the speeds are so great than radiation emitted within the new galaxy as ultraviolet light is "stretched" to much longer infrared wavelengths by the time it reaches Earth."

"The researchers acknowledge that while several lines of evidence point to an extremely young age for this galaxy, they don't have spectroscopic signatures that many would consider the "smoking gun." "

"Such unambiguous spectroscopic evidence is difficult to get at these distances and with current technology, acknowledges Massimo Stiavelli, an astronomer with the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore who was not part of the team. Still, he adds, the group's evidence "is reasonably convincing."

"Dr. Kneib notes that his team had to overcome skepticism that they could achieve their goal when they first applied for telescope time. But now that the results are out - and to be published in an upcoming edition of the Astrophysical Journal - the team hopes to get more time to study the object, as well as to search for counterparts elsewhere in the sky."