Scientists report the most distant galaxy ever detected, light from which has taken more than 13 billion years to arrive at planet earth as measured. They used a highly powered spectrograph which was able to pick apart the weak infrared light and establish the degree to which it had been stretched on its long journey through space and time by the expansion of the Universe. This measure, known as "redshift", is what allows the astronomers to confirm the galaxy was more than 13 billion light-years distant (i.e. it had a redshift of 8.55).
Light travels as a constant speed and light-years are the distance light can travel in one calendar year, equal to just under 10 trillion kilometres or about 6 trillion miles.
The Brahma Kumaris Spiritual University claims that the Universe is just 5,000 exact years old and repeats identically every 5,000 years. No explanation has ever been given as to how a 5,000 year segment of light can return identically to its place of origin during the period they call "Destruction" and before the start of the new world in order to be in the identical place same time next Kalpa.
Light travels as a constant speed and light-years are the distance light can travel in one calendar year, equal to just under 10 trillion kilometres or about 6 trillion miles.
The Brahma Kumaris Spiritual University claims that the Universe is just 5,000 exact years old and repeats identically every 5,000 years. No explanation has ever been given as to how a 5,000 year segment of light can return identically to its place of origin during the period they call "Destruction" and before the start of the new world in order to be in the identical place same time next Kalpa.
BBC wrote:A tiny faint dot in a Hubble picture has been confirmed as the most distant galaxy ever detected in the Universe. This collection of stars is so far away its light has taken more than 13 billion years to arrive at Earth.
Astronomers used the Very Large Telescope in Chile to follow up the Hubble observation and make the necessary detailed measurements. They tell the journal Nature that we are seeing the galaxy as it was just 600 million years after the Big Bang. Scientists are very keen to probe these great distances because they will learn how the early Universe evolved, and that will help them explain why the cosmos looks the way it does now.