This galaxy is 13.2 billion years old!
All together now :- "Happy Birthday to you,....."
Sorry, an old Goon Show line:-
"Crun: What? Bannister: This skull is 5 million years old!
Crun and Bannister: [Sings] Happy birthday to you, happy birthday to you."
From the release:- "This observation was made with the Wide Field Camera 3 starting just a few months after it was installed in the observatory in May 2009, during the last NASA space shuttle servicing mission to Hubble. After more than a year of detailed observations and analysis, the object was positively identified in the camera's Hubble Ultra Deep Field-Infrared data taken in the late summers of 2009 and 2010."
Hail to the last successful servicing mission!
Pic here:-
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/hu...st-galaxy.html