Thread: Most distance object in the universe ever seen by the eyes of mankind
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Posted 2009-04-30, 10:32 AM in reply to D3V's post starting "I though it was the oldest. But very..."
D3V said: [Goto]
I though it was the oldest. But very cool nonetheless. The other article I had read before said it was something like 300 million years after the Universe was created, (when it exploded).

Well basically age is synonymous with distance, the further it is from us the, the longer it takes the light to reach us, the older(or younger whichever way you look at it) the object is. The light we are seeing here is from a very young universe while the object now would look very different (it simply took about 14 billion years for the light from this object to reach us.
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