Gazing into the farthest reaches of the universe, an international team of astronomers led by a Rutgers professor has discovered galaxies that are ancestors of spiral galaxies like our Milky Way. These ancient objects, some of the first galaxies ever to form, appear as they did when the universe was young – a mere two billion years old. Scientists peg the universe’s age at 13.7 billion years today, which means light from these galaxies traveled almost 12 billion years to reach us here and now. (source: ur.rutgers.edu)
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