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Hubble breaks cosmic distance record
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Hubble breaks cosmic distance record
This is a couple weeks old, but I find it amazing.

https://www.spacetelescope.org/news/heic1604/

Galaxy GN-z11 was seen as it appeared 400 million years after the big bang.

We’ve taken a major step back in time, beyond what we’d ever expected to be able to do with Hubble. We managed to look back in time to measure the distance to a galaxy when the Universe was only three percent of its current age,” says Pascal Oesch of Yale University and lead author of the paper.

If hubble can see this far back, I can't wait to see what the new James Webb space telescope will reveal.

http://www.spaceanswers.com/astronomy/te...smic-butt/

“Understanding is a three edged sword: your side, their side, and the truth.”
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Science is awesome.
Dying to live, living to die.
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(March 21, 2016 at 11:49 pm)The Valkyrie Wrote: Science is awesome.




I can't begin to imagine what we could do as a species if we could simply transcend the primates we evolved from.    

1) Punt all religion to the curb.  
2) Control our population.   
3) Embrace intellectualism and the sciences.
4) Treat our planet/environment with respect.  
    
I don't have much faith though.  Our future is Mad Max, not Star Trek.

“Understanding is a three edged sword: your side, their side, and the truth.”
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That's because they let idiots vote.
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and that weird little goomer potentially grew/evolved into something possibly like our galaxy and 'now' (whatever that means, tee hee) there might be someone (something) looking our way and seeing our end of the universe as it was at 3% of the current age of universe . . .
 The granting of a pardon is an imputation of guilt, and the acceptance a confession of it. 




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(March 22, 2016 at 12:35 am)vorlon13 Wrote: and that weird little goomer potentially grew/evolved into something possibly like our galaxy and 'now' (whatever that means, tee hee) there might be someone (something) looking our way and seeing our end of the universe as it was at 3% of the current age of universe . . .




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