An artist's impression of a dying star exploding to produce a gamma ray burst.From The Daily Mail:
Astronomers have snapped a picture of the most distant object ever seen in the universe - a titanic burst of energy from a dying star 13 billion light years away.
The 'gamma ray burst' is so far away that its light has taken almost the entire age of the universe to reach us.
When the light began its journey, travelling at 186,000 miles per second, only 640 million years had passed since the Big Bang that marked the dawn of creation.
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