Hubble Discovers Unusual Asteroid; Earliest Confirmed Galaxy Detected: Space Fan News #118

Lots of cool stuff coming up: Scott Lewis is at YouTube Studios now recording next week’s SFN, and we have some awesome Hubble Hangouts in the works this month!

Links from today’s stories:

Strange asteroid:
http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/2013/52/

Hubble Hangout Link:
https://plus.google.com/b/104933578966497599647/events/c8fhenpgumsm12tv6mqii387n14

Most distant confirmed galaxy:
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v502/n7472/full/nature12657.html
http://www.umass.edu/newsoffice/article/amherst-astronomer-international-team

Ned Wright’s Cosmology Calculator:
http://www.astro.ucla.edu/~wright/CosmoCalc.html

Why Light Travel Time Should not be used in press releases:
http://www.astro.ucla.edu/~wright/Dltt_is_Dumb.html

What is the Size of the Universe?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJayxpt482g

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