Astronomers Find Farthest Known Galaxies

Space.com on Yahoo ^ | 7/10/07 | Robert Roy Britt

[NormsRevenge]

A gravitational lens is a massive object, such as a cluster of galaxies, that magnifies light from galaxies that are farther away and which would otherwise not be observable. Credit: Caltech

[Mikey_1962]

If they were “known” galaxies why were they looking for them?

[NormsRevenge]

W. M. Keck Observatory

Astronomers Claim to Find Most Distant Known Galaxies
http://www.keckobservatory.org/article.php?id=110

[HoustonTech]

LOL. Then too how many galaxies do they know about still that haven’t been found. ;-)

[ex-snook]

Wonder how they ‘evolved’?

[jrd]

did they find K-PAX?

[HoustonTech]

Astronomers Claim to Find Most Distant Known Galaxies

Let them find some unknown galaxies. Now that would be impressive.

[SIDENET]

I like Galaxies. Here's a '63 convertible.

[Grig]

Someone on another board asked something I’m not sure what the answer to is, so I’ll let some of you take a stab at it:

To paraphrase the question:

- matter can’t travel faster than light
- there was no matter/light/galaxies before the big bang
so how can we have all the matter for a Milky way galaxy get so far away from an ‘original’ galaxy’ in time for that matter to form the Milky way and earth in time for humans here to still see the light from that galaxy so near to the big bang?

[frithguild]

After the theoretical Big Bang, there were no stars. Eventually, a thick "fog" was effectively burned off by hot, young stars, ending what's called the cosmic Dark Ages.

2 Now the earth was [a] formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters.

3 And God said, "Let there be light," and there was light. 4 God saw that the light was good, and He separated the light from the darkness.

[ml/nj]

Dum-da-dum-dum.

ML/NJ

[ex-snook]

Creating something from nothing in a big bang was quite a feat. Wonder when the sound of that big bang will arrive. Thar sure was a lot of creatin goin on out thar.

[quark]

The Limousine-Leftist Pussbag Galaxy:

[ml/nj]

megaping!

[Vroomfondel]

Someone on another board asked something I’m not sure what the answer to is, so I’ll let some of you take a stab at it:

To paraphrase the question:

• matter can’t travel faster than light
• there was no matter/light/galaxies before the big bang

so how can we have all the matter for a Milky way galaxy get so far away from an ‘original’ galaxy’ in time for that matter to form the Milky way and earth in time for humans here to still see the light from that galaxy so near to the big bang?

Space got bigger.

[RightWhale]

It's far worse than that. Alan Guth's Inflation phase enlarged space so much that we see only 10^-9 of the actual universe radius inside the Hubble radius.

[gcruse]

Because galaxies ‘ride’ on space. And space has expanded since the BB. The speed of light does not limit the speed of universal expansion.

[gcruse]

You can’t hear sound in space, else the noise of the sun would be a constant distraction. The fireball of the BB is all around us, though. It’s the background microwave radiation.

[Dinsdale]

Just part of the evil astronomers plot to turn people away from biblical truth.

We know the universe is about 6000 years old. All fields that believe contrary to this should not be taught in public schools unless the alternative (and only one alternative) is taught alongside it. (/ sarc added for the sarcasm challenged.)

[ex-snook]

thanks,