hello space fans tonight's news comes to us from the Hubble Space Telescope where earlier this week the place where I worked the Space Telescope Science Institute announced that the Hubble had done it yet again it has it has detected a new record holder for the work most distant object ever discovered so far and here's the release the video release that they put out the win with their press release and this was again this was discovered in the area of the ultra deep field which was taken with the new camera the wide field camera 3 or the whip c3 yeah was put on board back in two thousand nine when we went and did the upgrade to the Hubble Space Telescope for the last time and it looked at the at the same region of sky as the ultra deep field and took this image now if you look very closer here it is that red smudge right there is it that's the most distant galaxy ever recorded by human beings and here it is kind of enhanced a little bit with the new with sort of contrast enhancing to bring up some of the fainter signal so that object that galaxy was around when the universe was only for around four hundred and eighty million years old just a few hundred years a few hundred million years after the Big Bang now in some of my videos I've showed you that the first stars formed around 150 million years after the Big Bang occurred so about another few hundred million years later the galaxies actually started to form and this object is the furthest one we've seen so far now it's all blobby and out of out of focus because this is about the best the Hubble can do we finally reach the limits of what this telescope can do it can't resolve anything it can only detect the light in this sort of fuzzy way but when the James Webb Space Telescope goes up it's going to have a much larger objective a primary mirror and it might and it should be able to resolve this some detail in this galaxy and maybe see individual stars as well so it's really important that the James Webb go up so we can follow up with more detailed observations like then then what the Hubble is giving us so that's one thing I wanted to discuss now the second thing is I feel like I would be remiss if I didn't mention that today was the 25th anniversary of the Challenger disaster and that was a real sad day for anyone who cares about space exploration or the space program in general it was a it was a really sad day for a lot of people and I thought I would commemorate today by telling you how I found out about this occurring what I was doing when when I found out the shuttle had exploded I was 23 years old and I was in the army in fact I was in basic training i had only been in basic training a few weeks and we've gotten up early in the morning as everybody does in the army and we had gotten our weapons and we were getting ready for the day in training we had just come back from the armory and we were in formation standing ready to go out and do the training for the day when the drill sergeant comes out and he stands in front of the company and he goes company I 10 John well snap to the space shuttle Challenger has exploded ride face forward march and that's how I found out we went off button we went off and did our training for the day and of course I was thinking about it the whole day but when you're in basic training you don't get a lot of time to read a newspaper so I had at the end of the day I wouldn't got a paper and and read about what had happened and was was truly saddened by the event so that's how I found out about it I think a good way for us all to kind of take them in and think about this a little bit is if you have the time I'd like you to leave a comment on this video below and maybe share the story of how you found out about it what you were doing when you first learned about it or maybe if you were too young at the time and you don't remember it maybe share your thoughts on what it means to you and how it's affected you if it has it all I'd love to hear what you guys think about this so please take a moment leave a comment well I guess thats it for todays space fans keep looking up
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