Furthest object said to pave way for probing early cosmos

An ex­plo­sion in space de­tected April 23 marks the most dis­tant, longest-a­go event and ob­ject known, as­tro­no­mers say.

Ob­jects seen fur­ther away in space al­so ap­pear as fur­ther back in time, since it takes time for their light to get he­re.

Al­though there have been a num­ber of such rec­ord-breakers in the past, as­tro­no­mers say each rec­ord paves the way for prob­ing ear­li­er and ear­li­er in­to the his­to­ry of the uni­verse, al­low­ing an un­prec­e­dent­ed un­der­stand­ing of its ev­o­lu­tion.

Source: http://www.world-science.net/othernews/090428_grb