U.S. The Swift satellite recorded a flash left by a massive explosion of a dying star, located at 13,000 million light years from Earth.
This satellite is designed to detect that kind of gamma ray bursts.
The Swift detected on April 23 gamma-ray explosion 10 seconds long in the constellation Leo.
Then the ground-based telescopes astronomers turned to the same place in heaven and managed to get a picture of radiance languished.
A member of the international team that investigated the event, Edo Berger, said the event is a sign that in this we find in the universe with stars that exploded just a few hundred million years after the Big Bang. "
"The star is so far away that their light has taken almost the entire age of the universe to reach Earth," said the correspondent, Fioa Werge.
Werge added that the explosion shown in the photograph as a patch of light. He was captured by the Gemini Observatory in Hawaii.
Scientists say the blast was caused by the collapse of a massive star that exploded at the end of his life.
"It is believed that when the light began its journey, the universe was only several hundred million years, in spatial terms means that it was in its infancy," said Werge.
Because light moves at finite speed, looking at the distance of the universe means back in time.
Experts estimate that the first stars were formed when the universe was between 200 and 400 million years.
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