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A stellar explosion has smashed the record for most distant object in the known universe.


The gamma-ray burst came from about 13 billion light-years away, and represents a relic from when the universe was just 630 million years old.

A light-year is the distance that light can travel in a year, or about 6 trillion miles (10 trillion kilometers). So astronomers are seeing this particular burst as it existed 13 billion years ago, because the light took that long to reach Earth observers.

Just mindboggling.


http://news.yahoo.com/s/space/spacee...tthingeverseen