December 21, 2006

NASA Telescope Picks Up Glow of Universe’s First Objects

? New observations from NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope strongly suggest that infrared light detected in a prior study originated from clumps of the very first objects of the Universe. The recent data indicate this patchy light is splattered across the entire sky and comes from clusters of bright, monstrous objects more than 13 billion light-years [...]

Filed by anomalus at December 21st, 2006 under Sci. & Tech.
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