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Astronomers Find Farthest Known Object
April 28, 2009
Astronomers at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, along with colleagues elsewhere in the United States and the United Kingdom
News From the Field
Astronomers Find Farthest Known Object
April 28, 2009
Astronomers at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, along with colleagues elsewhere in the United States and the United Kingdom, have discovered the most distant object in the universe--a spectacular stellar explosion known as a gamma-ray burst located about 13 billion light years away. The record-breaking explosion occurred when the universe was only 630 million years old, a mere one-twentieth of its current age.
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
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