Astronomers may have discovered the oldest galaxy in the universe

[io9]  The galaxy's "oldest-ever" status ultimately boils down to whether other recent discoveries are as accurate as claimed. In 2010, French astronomers used Hubble Telescope to observe a galaxy they determined to be 13.1 billion light years away. Last year, a team of California astronomers used Hubble again to obseve a galaxy said to be 13.2 billion light years away. But these findings have yet to be verified to many researchers' satisfaction.