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astronomers have pushed nasa's hubble

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space telescope to its limits by finding

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what they believe is the most distant

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ancient object ever seen in the universe

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its light traveled 13.2 billion years to

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reach hubble roughly 150 million years

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longer than the previous record holder

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the age of the universe is 13.7 billion

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years

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is a compact galaxy of blue stars that

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existed 480 million years after the big

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bang only four percent of the universe's

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current age it's tiny over 100 such many

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galaxies would be needed to make up our

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two years ago a

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powerful new camera was put on hubble

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and a camera which worked in the

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infrared which we had never really had

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good capability before and we've now

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taken the deepest image of the universe

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ever

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using this camera in the infrared we're

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looking back through 96 of the life of

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the universe

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and

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in so doing we have found just one

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galaxy but it is one and it is a

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remarkable object the universe was only

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500 million years old at that time

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versus it now being 13 700 million years

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old the image that we've taken with

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hubble this deepest image ever of the

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universe is actually on a tiny region of

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the sky it's only about the tenth the

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size of the full moon tenth of the

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diameter of the full moon so it really

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is tiny and in that there are thousands

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and thousands of galaxies some like our

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own milky way but most a lot smaller

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than our own milky way as we look deep

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into these data

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we are going back in time through 96 of

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the life of the universe to when the

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universe was just four percent of its

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current age it's a little hard to think

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about because of the billions of years

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involved but a good analogy is think

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about a baby and how that changes so

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dramatically in the first couple of

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years we're looking back to when the

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universe was full of baby galaxies as it