Wednesday, February 1, 2012

most distant object in the universe

while on the subject of the universe,
The most distant "object" or "place" detected in the universe

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn17035-most-distant-object-in-the-universe-spotted.html


the small red dot in the image may not look like much but it is a burst of light traveling 13.1 billion light years to earth...