Astronomers have found what they believe may be the most distant galaxy ever seen.

NASA said light from the galaxy travelled about 13.2 billion light-years before it was captured by NASA's Spitzer and Hubble space telescopes and first shone when our 13.7-billion-year-old universe was only 500 million years old.

Astronomers said the galaxy existed when the universe began to transition from the so-called cosmic dark ages. During this period, the universe went from a dark, starless expanse to a cosmos full of galaxies.

The discovery of the faint, small galaxy opens a window into the deepest, remotest epochs of cosmic history.
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