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"?  ...

Seriously!  I really think it is, because the last time I heard about astronomical units of measure like this I was watching Star Trek! Anyway, news out today says that the Hubble's actually picked up some of the oldest galaxies ever seen.  And by any decent standard, these are monstrously old.  How old?  Their age is ...