Number 204 (Story #4), November 23, 1994 by Phillip F. Schewe and Ben Stein THE MOST DISTANT GALAXY ever observed lies at a redshift of 4.25. The previous galaxy redshift record was 3.8. The newly discovered galaxy, 8C1435+635, was glimpsed by astronomers using the Herschel Telescope in the Canary Islands. This finding, along with the detection in past years of other galaxies at high redshifts, reinforces the idea that some galaxies had formed very early in the history of the universe, within a few billion years of the big bang. (Science, 11 Nov.)