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Tiny Galaxy Spotted Halfway Across the Universe source: Space.com | Oct 06, 07 | submitted by Pat Coate

Santa Barbara, California, USA - Astronomers have spotted and weighed a tiny galaxy located 6 billion light-years away, or nearly halfway across the universe.

It was made visible by a phenomenon called gravity lensing, whereby light from a distant source is warped by the gravitational field of another massive object located directly in front of it.

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