Astronomers have just photographed the most distant galaxy ever detected — a lone object 13.2 billion light years from Earth. Since the Galaxy is alone, its discovery implies that the fledgling Universe was emptier than was previously imagined.
The galaxy was spotted in the Hubble Ultra Deep Field photograph, an infrared image of the night sky that contains the faintest and farthest objects so far pictured.
The image took an 89 hour exposure time, in the infrared. Since the further away something is, the faster it recedes, and the more the light is stretched, or Red shifted. The primordial galaxy that they found is so remote that its light is detectable only at the longest infrared wavelengths that Hubble can see. We will have to wait until the James Webb telescope is launched 2015, before we can see anything even further away.
***Thoughts
Unless, if at these distances the stretched light has degenerated into pure noise, ......we will see nothing?
http://theweek.com/article/index/211500/a-glimpse-at-the-oldest-galaxy-ever-foundhttp://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v469/n7331/full/nature09717.html
