The Hubble: A new cosmic distance in its record

NASA Goddard images announced on Twitter the discovery of a new galaxy.GN-z11 is the farthest galaxy that theHubble team has spotted.

Researchers discovered the galaxy in the Hubble Space Telescope’s Great Observatories Origins Deep Survey (GOODS). The survey data includes thousands of galaxies in a wide span of time and GN-z11 is estimated to be 13.4 billion years old.

One of the curiosities about GN-z11 is its brightness. Astronomers say that the galaxy is particularly bright. It has 1% of our galaxy’s mass, but it creates stars 20 times faster than our Milky Way. It can be seen in the direction of the famous constellation Ursa Major.

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