It’s been a while since we last talked about anything that came out of the Hubble’s memory banks, folks, so this is definitely an awesome slice of news.  Remember how we were saying before that Hubble’s range was pretty much reaching the limit by grabbing stuff that started a billion years after the “big bang”?  Well, as it turns out, they’ve pushed their limit just a bit farther by grabbing stuff that started FIVE HUNDRED MILLION YEARS afterward.

I know, that blew me away too.  These are some of the oldest galaxies out there, so they say, and eventually there’ll be a generation of space camera / telescope that’ll have a range far enough to snag stuff that’s a hundred million years past the “big bang”.

The end of the universe gets closer and closer every day, folks…we might be able to see it by the end of our lives.  I don’t know about you, but that’s just a little bit creepy.  Cool, but creepy nonetheless.

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