It dates 13.8 billion years…

It is just about the oldest galaxy ever seen.  Many talk about the big bang and of course the inevitable question comes up, if that theory is true, what created the big bang?  If nothing else, the visible universe that we can see using red shift models maxes out at about 14 billion years.  Who even knows if that is correct but this galactic find is about the oldest using that technique:

Astronomers have discovered the faintest galaxy ever detected, dating back to the early universe. The ancient structure, which has been nicknamed Tayna, is estimated to have existed around 400 million years after the tumultuous birth of our universe, which exploded into life 13.8 billion years ago.

The observations that led to the discovery were carried out by the Hubble Space Telescope and the Spitzer Space Telescope. By observing an incredibly distant object such as Tayna, astronomers are able to gaze into the ancient past and analyze the elusive galactic structures that populated the early cosmos

Let’s check out this thing and find out more about how they found it on page 2

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