The oldest galaxy found to date
By gewcew23
@gewcew23 (8007)
United States
October 20, 2010 9:25pm CST
Galaxy UDFy-38135539 was discovered by Matthew Lehnert of the Observatory of Paris in Meudon, France by using the Hubble Space Telescope’s Wide Field Camera 3. This galaxy is 13.071 billion light-years away from our galaxy. The galaxy is the oldest to have been discovered, it life began just 600 million years after the Big Bang. In 2014 we will be able to observe the galaxy with the launching of the infrared James Webb Space Telescope and a good possibility of discovering even older galaxies.
http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/64433/title/New_cosmic_distance_record-holder
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@anniepa (27955)
• United States
21 Oct 10
Uh-oh, don't let some of our buddies from the politics interest see this! You KNOW the earth is only what, 6000 years old and humans coexisted with the dinosaurs.
Seriously, this is fascinating. it's so incredible what they can do and what we're all learning today. So many things similar to what I saw as a kid in science fiction movies and shows are coming true.
Annie
@gewcew23 (8007)
• United States
21 Oct 10
Oh I know when I was writing this I was thinking about those and what they would come up with to deny what the evidence is showing. Most likely they will ignore this like they ignore all the other evidence that is contrary to their belief system.
Science fiction does have an interesting way of becoming science non-fiction as time moves forward.
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@flowerchilde (12529)
• United States
21 Oct 10
Actually, no one knows how light and time travel through empty space.. and the Anthropic Principle" has a lot of people asking questions also, such as how can seeing design be denied?
@xfahctor (14113)
• Lancaster, New Hampshire
23 Oct 10
This kind of stuff absolutely fascinates me.The age is interesting, it seems to show that galaxies formed a bit earlier than we previously thought and that the universe's "dark age" was over a little sooner.
Can't wait for the launch of the WEBB, going to be some really great discoveries with that one. This telescope may be our first to give us an actual images of a planet around another star.
