Astronomers have discovered a distant galaxy whose stars were born unusually early in cosmic history, that just 200 million years after the Big Bang. The team of scientists made ​​the discovery using telescopes Hubble , the discovery is confirmed then the Spitzer telescope, the NASA. In terms of distance to the galaxy, it has been calculated using the Observatory in Hawaii, according to The Daily Galaxy.

Studied galaxy formed only 200 million years after the Big Bang , said Johan Richard, who led the study. The discovery is important because it breaks down many theories which refer to the period in which galaxies formed and evolved in the early universe, he said. This finding could explain, also, how the universe became transparent to ultraviolet rays, the first billion years after the Big Bang.
Although it is not the oldest galaxy ever detected, another previously studied it is even older than a few million years, it shows quite different features compared with other distant galaxies seen to date, scientists have said. The galaxy lies at a distance of 12.8 billion light years from Earth and contained in the time of observation, to 950 million years after the Big Bang, stars in the age of about 750 million years.

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