The galaxy GN-z11, which scientists think could be the farthest and oldest galaxy ever observed, superimposed onto an image from the GOODS-North survey
© NASA/ESA/P. Oesch (Yale University)/G. Brammer (STScI)/ P. van Dokkum (Yale University)/ G. Illingworth (University of California, Santa Cruz)
Astronomers have peered out into the vast expanse and spotted what they think is the farthest – and oldest – galaxy ever observed. GN-z11 appears to be the most distant and oldest galaxy ever detected. Astronomers led by Nobunari Kashikawa, a professor in the department of astronomy at the University of Tokyo, embarked on a mission to find the universe’s most distant observable galaxy to learn more about how it formed.