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Clearing the cosmic fog: The most distant galaxy ever measured (w/ Video)
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After two months of very careful analysis and testing of their results, the team found that they had clearly detected the very faint glow from hydrogen at a redshift of 8.6, which makes this galaxy the most distant object ever confirmed by spectroscopy. A redshift of 8.6 corresponds to a galaxy seen just 600 million years after the Big Bang.
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The timeframe corresponding to redshift 8.6 is known as the 'era of re-ionisation' and they had to disassociate the image from hydrogen fog. A very faint image.
… Also a new record for spectroscopy !! Interesting 'zoom-in' video, also.
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