 Caltech astronomer Brant Robertson, commenting on the study, stated that the "galaxy happens to reside at a very special time in cosmic history when the properties of gas in the universe were changing rapidly, and therefore this galaxy and others like it may teach us a lot about the early history of the universe".Michele Trenti, an astronomer who was not involved in the study but provided commentary published with the report, says that the discovery of the distant galaxy represents a

Scientists hope to find older galaxies; however, closer to the Big Bang, fewer exist and they are dimmer on average.They will therefore be increasingly difficult to find, since they would be very faint with fewer observable stars.