Summary: Your friend in another country may seem incredibly far away, but this latest discovery will put that in perspective. A new record has been set for the most distant galaxy. The Hubble Space Telescope has found the galaxy z8_GND_5296 to be about 30 billion light years away. We are seeing this galaxy as it appeared just 700 million years after the Big Bang. To determine the distance, they looked at the redshift of the galaxy. It has a redshift of 7.51 which beats the previous winner of 7.21.
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