According to Science Daily [here], astronomers are just now utilizing the power of the Spitzer telescope to uncover some fascinating facts about the universe.
Using the telescope and removing light from common, and close objects ... astronomers believe they have peered to the very brinks of the universe, seeing 13.7 years away... or into the past. They light that they are seeing at the edges of our universe is believed to originate from the very earliest objects in the universe: early stars, planets, and the subsequent events that eventually follow, such as impact and super novas.
These objects are the first objects that shed light into the darkened, hot, universe following the Big Bang, which are believed to have arisen several hundred million years after the origin of the universe, 13.7 billion years ago.
Wow! To see so far into the history of our makings... the ancients would be so jealous!
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