A team of astronomers have discovered the most distant galaxy yet.
The new galaxy is approximately 30 billion light-years away, and is already helping scientists learn more about the time period that took place right after the big bang.
It was discovered by using the Hubble Space Telescope and its distance was confirmed by the ground-based Keck Observatory based in Hawaii, according to BBC News.
Click here to read the study, which was published in the journal Nature.
The galaxy has been called z8_GND_5296.
"This is the most distant galaxy we've confirmed," lead researcher Steven Finkelstein, from the University of Texas at Austin said, according to BBC News. "We are seeing this galaxy as it was 700 million years after the Big Bang."
Astronomers were able to confirm how far away the galaxy was by analyzing its color, according to the study.
The system has about 1 to 2 percent the mass of the Milky Way, but is capable of turning gas and dust into stars at a much quicker rate.
"One very interesting way to learn about the Universe is to study these outliers and that tells us something about what sort of physical processes are dominating galaxy formation and galaxy evolution," said Finkelstein. "What was great about this galaxy is not only is it so distant, it is also pretty exceptional."
Other galaxies are expected to be discovered once NASA's James Webb Space Telescope is launched.
The galaxy looks the same as it did over 13.1 billion years ago, according to the astronomers.
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