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Oldest one we know of anyway...

With a boost from a naturally occurring magnifying glass in space, the Hubble Space Telescope makes out the most distant galaxy in the universe. It is about 13 billion light years away, meaning it was formed about 1 billion years after the Big Bang, during the formative years of the universe.

From Discovery.com

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