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General Discussion => Science & Nature => Topic started by: sam on January 27, 2011, 04:19

Title: NASA's Hubble Finds Most Distant Galaxy Candidate Ever Seen in Universe
Post by: sam on January 27, 2011, 04:19

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How far is far? And, when do you know when you get there? This is not a Dr. Seuss riddle, but the ultimate "final frontier" confronting astronomers. We are on the cusp of seeing nearly as far as we ever can into the universe of stars and galaxies. The question can be better phrased: How young is young? And how do you know when you've seen the earliest objects that ever existed? That's because the farther we look into space the further back into time we see. We're accustomed to instantaneous communications on Earth, but starlight carries a roaming fee. It takes billions of years for information to reach us from the remote universe.

http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/2011/05/

Title: Re: NASA's Hubble Finds Most Distant Galaxy Candidate Ever Seen in Universe
Post by: Clive on January 27, 2011, 11:20

Getting ever closer to the Big Bang itself!