Newslink: These Ancient Galaxies Are Far Brighter Than Expected. Does That Signal a Cosmic Turning Point?
By staring at the sky for over 200 hours, the Spitzer Space Telescope collected light that finally reached Earth after a 13-billion-year voyage through space.
This light left its origin so long ago that researchers studying this imagery are essentially peering back — way back — in time, to the ancient cosmic past.
https://www.space.com/bright-galaxies-one-billions-years-old.html