Dear Michael F. Stemper:

On Saturday, August 18, 2018 at 12:07:51 PM UTC-7, Michael F. Stemper wrote:
On 2018-08-18 08:00, Jan Panteltje wrote:
Astronomers identify some of the oldest galaxies
in the universe
https://www.sciencedaily.com/release...0816183200.htm
....
The fact that the ones identified are close to us
is just because we can't adequately observe faint
satellites of other galaxies, right? This article
doesn't actually imply that we occupy some special
spot where galactic formation first happened, does
it?

Correct, it does not. Our eyesight is poor. We'd have trouble seeing such things around other galaxies. The expectation is that what we see, is like what other observers in other galaxies would see, now.

David A. Smith