Astronomers have discovered, through space telescopes Hubble and Spitzer NASA, which could be the farthest galaxy ever seen that before the formation of which dates back 12,800 million years. The galaxy, called A1689-zD1, is located about 13,000 light years away from our Solar System. He was captured by the Near Infrared Camera and Multi-Object Spectrometer (NICMOS) Hubble and Spitzer's infrared camera, data of 700 million years after the birth of the universe with the Big Bang.
The images show the bright young galaxy known so far in a moment of transformation in the 'dark ages', shortly after the' big bang (big bang) but before the first stars were formed. Current theories suggest that the 'dark ages' began about 400,000 years after the big bang.
"We were surprised when we discovered that bright young galaxy that goes back to 12,800 million years ago. They are the most detailed images of an object so far taken so far," said astronomer Garth Illingworth of the University of California (Santa Cruz ) and a member of the research team.
The images used to study the formative years of the birth of galaxies and their evolution. We also provide information on the types of objects that could have helped end the dark age.
The Hubble telescope has allowed astronomers to look farther and farther in time and observe galaxies in the earliest stages of evolution. "This galaxy is probably one of many that helped end the dark ages," said astronomer Larry Bradley of Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore and author of the study.
This distant galaxy is also an 'ideal target' for Hubble's successor, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), to be launched in 2013. "This galaxy is one of the first to observe with the JWST," said Holland Ford of Johns Hopkins University.
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