![](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/web/20090508032654im_/http://nsf.gov/images/x.gif) News From the Field Astronomers Find Farthest Known Object
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April 28, 2009
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Astronomers at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, along with colleagues elsewhere in the United States and the United Kingdom, have discovered the most distant object in the universe--a spectacular stellar explosion known as a gamma-ray burst located about 13 billion light years away. The record-breaking explosion occurred when the universe was only 630 million years old, a mere one-twentieth of its current age.
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Source Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
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