Astronomers Detect the Earliest Galaxies 127
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from the from-little-seeds dept.
from the from-little-seeds dept.
FiReaNGeL writes "Astronomers, using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, have uncovered a primordial population of compact and ultra-blue galaxies that have never been seen before. They are from 13 billion years ago, just 600 to 800 million years after the Big Bang. These newly found objects are crucial to understanding the evolutionary link between the birth of the first stars, the formation of the first galaxies, and the sequence of evolutionary events that resulted in the assembly of our Milky Way and the other 'mature' elliptical and majestic spiral galaxies in today's universe."
13 Billion years ago? (Score:5, Funny)
Old news!
Re:"Mature" galaxies? (Score:3, Funny)
http://media.aftenposten.no/archive/01011/SPACE-CHANDRA-NEBU_1011148x.jpg [aftenposten.no]
Re:Wow, that's astounding (Score:5, Funny)
You leave my wife out of this!
Re:Wow, that's astounding (Score:5, Funny)
the characteristics of which coincide perfectly with the big bag theory.
Blah blah blah. Look, I don't want to hear about how observations matched predictions. That's not science.
It's like this: I don't understand Big Bang Theory, therefore I don't like it, therefore it's nonsense, therefore your "evidence" is really just your prejudice, therefore we're obviously going to find galaxies that are ten billion years older than these ones, and therefore my theory of the Giant Cosmic Bunny Orgy Theory, which is obvious if you even think about it rationally, will be proven correct once and for all and I'll be elected the President of Physics. [xkcd.com]
Re:"Mature" galaxies? (Score:2, Funny)
DUDE! How about a NSFW warning next time?!
Re:Wow, that's astounding (Score:2, Funny)
Except, um, that is science.
No it isn't.
Re:13 Billion years ago? (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Big Deal. I can draw this crap in Photoshop... (Score:1, Funny)
This is amazing they can still get data like this, I thought Hubble was stuck in the sand on Mars...
Re:Really? (Score:5, Funny)
I am not an astrophysicist, but why not?
Not smart enough? Parental pressure to follow your father into plumbing? A death in the family during a critical part of your schooling? Lived too far from suitable tertiary institutions? Can I have a hint? :P