The Hubble Space Telescope has spied the most distant galaxy yet.

[Notebook]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-35721734

It is so far away that the light from this extremely faint collection of stars, catalogued as GN-z11, has taken some 13.4 billion years to reach us.

Or to put that another way - Hubble sees the galaxy as it was just 400 million years after the Big Bang.

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[richfororbit]

Yeah.

If it takes 130,000 years by rocket to get to a Exoplanet star system, and a space probe fifty years to Centauri. Then that galaxy, hmm. 2,000,000 years.

 

[PhantomCruiser]

Umm? Gliese 674 is "only" 15 light years away. But it's going to take much longer than 50 years for a probe to get there with chemical rockets. Voyager1 was moving at 17Km/sec in 2013, New Horizons is moving somewhere around 13 Km/sec.

Now there's a probe that might hit 200 Km/sec (Solar Probe Plus), but even that speed is less that 0.07 c.
http://solarprobe.jhuapl.edu/

It's going to be a very, very long time before we have a probe in the neighborhood of any exoplanet.

 

[RisingFury]

Yeah.

If it takes 130,000 years by rocket to get to a Exoplanet star system, and a space probe fifty years to Centauri. Then that galaxy, hmm. 2,000,000 years.

If you were travelling at the speed of light for two million years, you'd only be 2 million light years out. The galaxy in the article is 13.4 BILLION light years out.

2 million years wouldn't even get you to Andromeda, our nearest large galactic neighbor.