Time Traveling With Spitzer

Source: Spitzer Space Telescope

While time travel is seemingly impossible, we can actually look back in time with our telescopes to learn about the conditions of our universe in times past. The Spitzer Space Telescope has found some very dim and distant galaxies located at the edge of our universe that have never been seen before. Approximately 12.5 billion light-years away from Earth, we’re seeing these galaxies as when our universe was just one billion years old. With Spitzer's infrared capability, astronomers have been able to take infrared portraits and even "weigh" many of these early galaxies.

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