13.2 Billion Year Old Galaxy

[Thumpalumpacus]

Shoulda called it evolution then -_-

Sorta did -- EvolutionGetsStarted8part7.

[Ben Davis]

MORE evidence? I thought the 13.7 billion year figure was pretty solid.

When I was a kid, the oft-quoted figure was 10-20 billion years. By the time I was a young adult, it had been narrowed to 10-15 billion years. When they came out with the study showing 13.7 billion years, I was impressed that they had the confidence to quote it down to a 100 million-year window. It would be pretty embarrassing if it were found to be substantially off that.

Yeah, Lambda-CDM gives us the current measurements but I'm sure I saw a probably-reputable article recently that suggested that some celestial object measured 15.5 billion and therefore shouldn't exist. It didn't go on to say whether there was an error to be corrected in the specific measurement or changes to the model needed but I understand that 'exceptions' are being discovered fairly frequently.

[Anomalocaris]

The stellar age paradox is less of a problem for the 13.8 billion year age estimate for the universe than it appears. The estimate, based on stellar evolution theory, which contains as many if not more assumptions than the 13.8 age estimate of the universe, of 14.5 billion years for the age of some stars is just a mean value. Refinement of estimate of the impact of uncertainties in distance, etc, buts the error bars on the estimate at well over 800 million years. This means given range of uncertainty in stellar age estimate, the mean estimate of 14.5 billion yeRs of the age of some stars is not incompatible with the estimate that these stars could not in really be older than 13.8 billion years.

[Rhondazvous]

That was one of god's practice galaxies.

Einstein's god, of course. The one who doesn't care for worship, but is worthy of awe.

[Rhondazvous]

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[rado84]

http://www.rawstory.com/2015/09/13-2-bil...d-by-nasa/

Scientists have detected an “unusually luminous” galaxy that they now believe to be the oldest galaxy ever observed. EGS8p7, detected using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope and the Spitzer Space Telescope, is believed to have come into existence just 600 million years after the Big Bang, making it approximately 13.2 billion years old.

Someone should tell them they're deeply wrong - god created the world and the Universe about 6000 years ago.

[vorlon13]

http://www.rawstory.com/2015/09/13-2-bil...d-by-nasa/

Someone should tell them they're deeply wrong - god created the world and the Universe about 6000 years ago.

That galaxy is an illusion from SATAN to promote masturbation!!!

[vorlon13]

{that otta be good for a 1/2 doz. kudoes}