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Scientists discovered the oldest galaxy so far detected. It was first spotted by the Hubble Space Telescope, but they needed to turn to the more flexible ground based, Keck Observatory on Mauna Kea with it's Multi-Object Spectrometer to confirm their findings. The Mauna Kea observatories are still making incredible discoveries, and to paraphrase Mark Twain, "The reports of their obsolescence have been greatly exaggerated."

Astrophysicists at Caltech say they’ve detected the oldest, most distant galaxy known so far. It’s 13.2 billion years old — just over half a billion years younger than the universe itself — and the discovery may change what astrophysicists know about the early history of the universe.

Adi Zitrin and Richard Ellis first spotted EGS8p7 with the Hubble Space Telescope and the Spitzer Space Telescope, and based on those initial observations, they decided it was worth a closer look. To learn more about EGS8p7, they needed different instruments, so they turned to the Multi-Object Spectrometer For InfraRed Exploration (MOSFIRE) on the Keck Observatory in Hawai’i.

http://gizmodo.com/this-is-the-oldest-ga...1729038001