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Move Over, Oldest Recorded Galaxy, there's an older galaxy in town!
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Move Over, Oldest Recorded Galaxy, there's an older galaxy in town!
That's right, the oldest galaxy on record (which was supposed to be just shy of 13 billion years old is now edged out by a galaxy that's 100 million years older.
So when the universe was merely 600 million years old, there was already a galaxy.

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Ignorance and fanaticism are ever busy and need feeding. Always feeding and gloating for more. Today it is the public school teachers; tomorrow the private. The next day the preachers and the lecturers, the magazines, the books, the newspapers. After a while, Your Honor, it is the setting of man against man and creed against creed until with flying banners and beating drums we are marching backward to the glorious ages of the sixteenth centry when bigots lighted fagots to burn the men who dared to bring any intelligence and enlightenment and culture to the human mind. ~Clarence Darrow, at the Scopes Monkey Trial, 1925

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RE: Move Over, Oldest Recorded Galaxy, there's an older galaxy in town!
It's going to be a real eye opener when results start coming in from the new James Web space telescope. I'm drooling already.
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-- Samuel "Mark Twain" Clemens

"I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the scriptures, but with experiments, demonstrations, and observations".

- Galileo Galilei (1564-1642)

"In short, Meyer has shown that his first disastrous book was not a fluke: he is capable of going into any field in which he has no training or research experience and botching it just as badly as he did molecular biology. As I've written before, if you are a complete amateur and don't understand a subject, don't demonstrate the Dunning-Kruger effect by writing a book about it and proving your ignorance to everyone else! "

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RE: Move Over, Oldest Recorded Galaxy, there's an older galaxy in town!
I wonder if it is the actual normal faint surface luminosity we see, or a polar jet directed at us?

It would be interesting to know what type of galaxy it is, if it already possess complex structures like spiral arms and globular clusters, or if it indeed show evidence of cannibalism, which implies galaxies had existed significantly earlier still.
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RE: Move Over, Oldest Recorded Galaxy, there's an older galaxy in town!
Impossible to say at this resolution, would be my guess. Spectral analysis suggests that it is very metal poorand rich in hot blue stars, which is no big surprise, given its great age.
'The difference between a Miracle and a Fact is exactly the difference between a mermaid and seal. It could not be expressed better.'
-- Samuel "Mark Twain" Clemens

"I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the scriptures, but with experiments, demonstrations, and observations".

- Galileo Galilei (1564-1642)

"In short, Meyer has shown that his first disastrous book was not a fluke: he is capable of going into any field in which he has no training or research experience and botching it just as badly as he did molecular biology. As I've written before, if you are a complete amateur and don't understand a subject, don't demonstrate the Dunning-Kruger effect by writing a book about it and proving your ignorance to everyone else! "

- Dr. Donald Prothero
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