Farthest Known Galaxy In Universe Discovered

An international team of astronomers has said they have discovered the most distant galaxy ever measured in the universe.
By using a powerful instrument called MOSFIRE on the Keck I telescope at the Keck Observatory in Hawaii, the team determined that the galaxy, EGS-zs8-1, formed more than 13 billion years ago at a time when the universe was only five percent of its present age.
The discovery, published in the US journal Astrophysical Journal Letters, was only possible because of the relatively new MOSFIRE instrument on the Keck I telescope, which allows astronomers to efficiently study several galaxies at the same time.