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By now the galaxy is so ancient it probably doesn't exist in its earlier form and has already merged into bigger neighbors, said Matthew Lehnert of the Paris Observatory, lead author of the study published online Wednesday in the journal Nature.

Oldest Galaxy Discovered From 13.1 Billion Years Ago, Astronomers Say (PHOTO) AP/Huffington Post 2010

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So Lehnert said he and colleagues have called it the high red-shift blob.

Oldest Galaxy Discovered From 13.1 Billion Years Ago, Astronomers Say (PHOTO) AP/Huffington Post 2010

By now the galaxy is so ancient it probably doesn't exist in its earlier form and has already merged into bigger neighbors, said Matthew Lehnert of the Paris Observatory, lead author of the study published online Wednesday in the journal Nature.

Oldest Galaxy Discovered From 13.1 Billion Years Ago, Astronomers Say (PHOTO) AP/Huffington Post 2010

Because it takes so long for the light to travel such a vast time and distance, astronomers are seeing what the galaxy looked like 13.1 billion years ago at a time when it was quite young - maybe even as young as 100 million years old - Lehnert said.

Oldest Galaxy Discovered From 13.1 Billion Years Ago, Astronomers Say (PHOTO) AP/Huffington Post 2010

So Lehnert said he and colleagues have called it the high red-shift blob.

Oldest Galaxy Discovered From 13.1 Billion Years Ago, Astronomers Say (PHOTO) AP/Huffington Post 2010

By now the galaxy is so ancient it probably doesn't exist in its earlier form and has already merged into bigger neighbors, said Matthew Lehnert of the Paris Observatory, lead author of the study published online Wednesday in the journal Nature.

Oldest Galaxy Discovered From 13.1 Billion Years Ago, Astronomers Say (PHOTO) AP/Huffington Post 2010

Because it takes so long for the light to travel such a vast time and distance, astronomers are seeing what the galaxy looked like 13.1 billion years ago at a time when it was quite young - maybe even as young as 100 million years old - Lehnert said.

Oldest Galaxy Discovered From 13.1 Billion Years Ago, Astronomers Say (PHOTO) AP/Huffington Post 2010

So Lehnert said he and colleagues have called it the high red-shift blob.

Oldest Galaxy Discovered From 13.1 Billion Years Ago, Astronomers Say (PHOTO) AP/Huffington Post 2010

Because it takes so long for the light to travel such a vast time and distance, astronomers are seeing what the galaxy looked like 13.1 billion years ago at a time when it was quite young - maybe even as young as 100 million years old - Lehnert said.

Oldest Galaxy Discovered From 13.1 Billion Years Ago, Astronomers Say (PHOTO) AP/Huffington Post 2010