Fresh Start: Scientists Glimpse Unsullied Traces of the Infant Universe
Thursday, November 10, 2011 - 18:00
in Astronomy & Space
By peering into the distance with the biggest and best telescopes in the world, astronomers have managed to glimpse exploding stars, galaxies and other glowing cosmic beacons as they appeared just hundreds of millions of years after the big bang. They are so far away that their light is only now reaching Earth, even though it was emitted more than 13 billion years ago. [More]
