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brooklynite (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-20-10 04:07 PM Original message |
Scientists pinpoint the farthest galaxy |
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thereismore (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-20-10 04:14 PM Response to Original message |
1. Haha. That is just one faint fairy light that's actually really really close. |
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Uncle Joe (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-20-10 04:22 PM Response to Original message |
2. Fascinatingly beautiful. |
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Peace Patriot (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-20-10 04:24 PM Response to Original message |
3. Seems like it deserves a better name than "UDFy-38135539." |
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Ian David (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-20-10 05:03 PM Response to Reply #3 |
8. Far, Far Away. n/t |
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HopeHoops (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-20-10 05:12 PM Response to Reply #8 |
10. Where CURIOUSLY, everyone except for Chewbacca and Guito (or whatever his name was) speaks English. |
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Peace Patriot (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-20-10 05:47 PM Response to Reply #8 |
16. Good, but I'd add a "far." How about "ffFaway"? ("Far, far, FAR away.") |
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Peace Patriot (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-20-10 06:01 PM Response to Reply #16 |
18. I get "You Defy Chaceecdi." |
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Lars77 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-20-10 05:25 PM Response to Reply #3 |
14. Frigginlongwayawayistan nt |
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villager (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-20-10 04:29 PM Response to Original message |
4. Indeed, a mere "6,000 light years" away! |
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kimmerspixelated (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-20-10 04:31 PM Original message |
My God, It's Full Of Stars! |
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MilesColtrane (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-20-10 04:31 PM Response to Original message |
5. How do we know that we're not looking at our own galaxy 13 billion years ago? |
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kimmerspixelated (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-20-10 04:33 PM Response to Reply #5 |
7. We don't. |
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Mr. Sparkle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-20-10 04:33 PM Response to Original message |
6. I love news stories like this, it really opens up the imagination about our universe. n/t |
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Winterblues (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-20-10 05:08 PM Response to Original message |
9. I didn't think the universe was 13 billion years old. |
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HopeHoops (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-20-10 05:13 PM Response to Reply #9 |
11. It's only six thousand years old, you know, when God created it and made Adam and Eve. |
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Ian David (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-20-10 05:14 PM Response to Reply #9 |
12. There was an early period of hyper-expansion at the beginning that went faster than light. |
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Hosnon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-20-10 07:07 PM Response to Reply #9 |
22. The expansion of space doesn't have to follow the cosmic speed limit. nt. |
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geek tragedy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-20-10 05:18 PM Response to Original message |
13. Is the 6,000 years comment snark? nt |
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rug (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-20-10 05:27 PM Response to Original message |
15. So far. |
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marasinghe (754 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-20-10 05:49 PM Response to Original message |
17. thanks for posting. |
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DaveJ (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-20-10 07:00 PM Response to Original message |
19. If that pic is of the farthest galaxy |
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Posteritatis (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-20-10 07:03 PM Response to Reply #19 |
20. It's an artist's impression typical of modern crappy science reporting. (nt) |
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DaveJ (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-20-10 07:05 PM Response to Reply #20 |
21. Ah, I should have guessed. Thanks! |
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jennied (547 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-20-10 07:59 PM Response to Original message |
23. It really puts our silly quarrels into perspective. |
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