Published 14:32 IST, January 13th 2021

NASA shares picture of most massive galaxy cluster located 10 billion light years away

National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA),on January 12, left the internet stunned by sharing an image of a galaxy located ten billion light-yrs away

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National Aeronautics and Administration (NASA), on January 12, left internet stunned by sharing an im of a galaxy located ten billion light-years away. Posted on official Instagram p of NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory, im features galaxy cluster IDCS J1426. “Want a beautiful  picture as a new background  wallpaper for your phone or tablet?” NASA wrote sharing a downloadable link picture.

picture shows light glinting out of colossal galaxy, which weighs roughly as much as 500 trillion suns. Alongside picture, ncy explained that galaxy cluster is located 10 billion light-years from Earth. statement implies that means that light detected from it is, which is seen in picture, is from when  Universe was roughly 25per cent of its current . “It is most #massive galaxy cluster detected at such an early ,” NASA wrote.

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With nearly 23 and half thousand likes, breathtaking photograph has created a stir on internet. "Do y still exist w. Galaxies ?" questioned a user. "That is so stunning👏 I hope I can work at nasa later😍 and research things like this🔥🔥," added ar fascinated user.  Meanwhile, somebody else proclaimed, "Well done, NASA. Thanks for sharing".

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Oldest galaxy discovered

Meanwhile, astromers have discovered what y think is farst and oldest galaxy ever observed using Keck I telescope. Termed as ‘GN-z11’, galaxy is so distant that it defines ‘observable universe itself’, says press release by University of Tokyo. With this finding, researchers aim to establish a period of cosmological history when universe was only a few hundred million years old. research was led by bunari Kashikawa, a professor in department of astromy at University of Tokyo. 

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14:34 IST, January 13th 2021