HD1, the candidate for the most distant galaxy discovered to date, appears as the red object in the center of the zoom-in image.
“Astronomers may have found the most distant galaxies ever seen. In two papers posted to the arXiv preprint server, Yuichi Harikane (University of Tokyo) and an international team report the detection of two sources that appear to blaze at us from a mere 330 million years after the Big Bang. In astronomers’ lingo, that corresponds to a redshift of 13. The studies have been submitted for publication but are not yet peer-reviewed. Observers have previously found a handful of galaxies in the universe’s first few hundred million years. ...”
This timeline shows how the discoveries of these two candidate early galaxies fit in with the history of the universe.
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