Super Sonico Magazine May. 2014 | Page 8

AMAZING FACTS: Discovery A team of U.S. astronomers have discovered the most distant known galaxy, whose light was emitted when the universe was only 5 percent of its present age of 13 thousand 800 million years. The galaxy, dubbed z8-GND-5296, born when the universe emerged from the Big Bang was only 700 million years, "and what makes it unique compared to other similar discoveries is that the distance has been confirmed by a spectrograph" says the astronomer Bahram Mobasher 08 Super Sonico | Magazine