Astronomy: Keck Telescope's Infrared Reach

From: The Washington Post | Date: April 19, 1993| Author: | Copyright information

The new Keck Telescope in Hawaii - the world's largest optical and infrared telescope - has had its full capabilities tested for the first time, revealing unprecedented detail in an image of the most distant known galaxy in the universe.

The infrared image shows a galaxy in the constellation Lynx, near the Big Dipper, that is estimated to be 12 billion light-years away. This means the light has traveled 12 billion years (at the speed of light, 5.9 trillion miles a year) to reach Earth. When it left on this journey, the universe was only 10 percent to 25 percent of its current age.

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