Illingworth

But the usually indefatigable Illingworth is exasperated these days.

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Peering earlier into space will require the more advanced cameras of NASA's new James Webb Space Telescope, Illingworth said.

PHOTOS: Oldest Galaxy Ever Discovered AP/The Huffington Post 2011

Ellis and Henry Ferguson of the Space Telescope Science Institute said they were also worried that the Illingworth team only used one of several telescope filters to find this galaxy.

PHOTOS: Oldest Galaxy Ever Discovered AP/The Huffington Post 2011

Illingworth described what the cosmos might look like at that time period when the universe was smaller and the stars bluer and dimmer.

PHOTOS: Oldest Galaxy Ever Discovered AP/The Huffington Post 2011

Ferguson said Illingworth did "a very good job of making that detection convincing."

PHOTOS: Oldest Galaxy Ever Discovered AP/The Huffington Post 2011

Illingworth said originally he and colleagues confused what may have been real light from billions of years ago and background "noise" from the process of looking so far away, so they re-did the study.

PHOTOS: Oldest Galaxy Ever Discovered AP/The Huffington Post 2011

Ellis and Henry Ferguson of the Space Telescope Science Institute said they were also worried that the Illingworth team only used one of several telescope filters to find this galaxy.

PHOTOS: Oldest Galaxy Ever Discovered AP/The Huffington Post 2011

Peering earlier into space will require the more advanced cameras of NASA's new James Webb Space Telescope, Illingworth said.

PHOTOS: Oldest Galaxy Ever Discovered AP/The Huffington Post 2011

Ferguson said Illingworth did "a very good job of making that detection convincing."

PHOTOS: Oldest Galaxy Ever Discovered AP/The Huffington Post 2011

Illingworth described what the cosmos might look like at that time period when the universe was smaller and the stars bluer and dimmer.

PHOTOS: Oldest Galaxy Ever Discovered AP/The Huffington Post 2011