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Judi Lynn

(160,219 posts)
Wed Sep 19, 2012, 04:32 PM Sep 2012

Astronomers find galaxy born at dawn of the universe

Astronomers find galaxy born at dawn of the universe
By Agence France-Presse
Wednesday, September 19, 2012 16:14 EDT

PARIS — Astronomers in Europe and the United States said on Wednesday they had spotted the farthest and oldest galaxy ever found, a star cluster 13.2 billion light years away.

Light reaching Earth today from galaxy MACS 1149-JD is truly ancient, they reported in the British journal Nature.

The rays were sent out 490 million years after the Big Bang that created the Universe some 13.7 billion years ago.


PARIS — Astronomers in Europe and the United States said on Wednesday they had spotted the farthest and oldest galaxy ever found, a star cluster 13.2 billion light years away.

Light reaching Earth today from galaxy MACS 1149-JD is truly ancient, they reported in the British journal Nature.

The rays were sent out 490 million years after the Big Bang that created the Universe some 13.7 billion years ago.

“We estimate that it (the galaxy) formed less than 200 million years after the Big Bang,” the team said.

More:
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/09/19/astronomers-find-galaxy-born-at-dawn-of-the-universe/



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villager

(26,001 posts)
1. How is the light getting to us in 490 million years if it's 13.2 billion light years away?
Wed Sep 19, 2012, 04:34 PM
Sep 2012

Wormhole, perhaps? Folds in space/time?

 

villager

(26,001 posts)
6. Ah yes. Re-read. So the light's taken 13 + billion years to get here, and started its journey
Wed Sep 19, 2012, 07:22 PM
Sep 2012

...on the 490 millionth birthday year of the universe. Okay, tracking now...

 

bongbong

(5,436 posts)
5. It proves Einstein was wrong
Wed Sep 19, 2012, 05:58 PM
Sep 2012

According to the repigs.

After all, the light had to travel a lot faster than light-speed to get to earth in 6000 years from so far away.

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