Hubble breaks cosmic distance record 4 March 2016 Share More Information Crys Ja +61 3 8344 8922 +61 (0) 434 367 449 Department:  Media An international team of astronomers has pushed NASA's Hubble Space Telescope to its limits to measure the distance to the farthest galaxy we can see, shattering the cosmic distance record. This surprisingly bright galaxy, named GN-z11, is located 13.4 billion light-years away in the direction of the constellation of Ursa Major. The galaxy, the furthest ever seen in the Universe, existed just 400 million years after the Big Bang. The team comprises scientists from Yale University, the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) and the University of California. The Australian research contingent includes Dr Michele Trenti from the University of Melbourne and
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