Oldest Galaxy Yet.....

[Minimalist]

http://news.yahoo.com/astronomers-discov...25193.html

CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) - Astronomers have found the most distant galaxy yet, a discovery that pushes back scientists' view of the universe to about 700 million years after it is thought to have come into existence.

Light from the galaxy, designated by scientists as z8_GND_5296, took about 13.1 billion years to reach the orbiting Hubble Space Telescope and the Keck Observatory in Hawaii, both of which detected the galaxy in infrared light.

"We are learning so much about a region so far back in time it's hard to comprehend. This galaxy we're seeing is almost 13.1 billion years ago and so this was something like 8 billion years before our sun was even born and of course much longer after that until life came around," said lead researcher Steven Finkelstein, an assistant professor with the University of Texas at Austin.

Fuck. That's a long time ago!

[Fidel_Castronaut]

And I can't help but wondering where z8_GND_5296 fits into the Abrahamic god's plans for humanity?

[LastPoet]

Well, their holy book is off by a few bilion years. Nothing that pauses their bullshit.

[Doubting Thomas]

I thought this was the oldest Galaxy:

This galaxy we're seeing is almost 13.1 billion years ago and so this was something like 8 billion years before our sun was even born

Just think, it's possible that we're seeing light from that galaxy and they don't even see light from our sun yet.

[Tonus]

Wow, teach those guys some math. All this means is that the universe is really 10,001 years old. GET THEE BEHIND ME, SATAN!!! (and don't grab my ass while you're back there, you fuckin' perv)

[pocaracas]

So... if this galaxy emitted light 13 billion years ago... then "we" were already a few billion light years away from that galaxy.... how long did it take for us to move so far apart?