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To: lbryce

Just a tiny fraction of an inch square of the sky.


3 posted on 09/26/2012 7:25:28 PM PDT by cripplecreek (What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul?)
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To: cripplecreek

The field is smaller than a grain of sand held at arm’s length. Yet it contains some 5,000+ galaxies. Galaxies typically contain 50-200 billion stars (each). The furthest objects in the field (galaxies and/or proto-galaxies) are reported to be some 13.2 billion light years away, ONE light year, the distance light travels in a year at its basically constant speed of 186,000 miles per second, works out to be about 6 TRILLION miles. So these objects, now redshifted into much longer wavelengths by virtue of universal expansion, are in the neighborhood of 13.2 billion times 6 trillion miles away from us. And they’re 13.2 billion years older by now. Did I screw up on any of this?


11 posted on 09/26/2012 7:42:03 PM PDT by ETL (ALL (most?) of the Obama-commie connections at my FR Home page: http://www.freerepublic.com/~etl/)
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