January 7, 2010


earliest photo of the universe

Scientists released the photo Tuesday at a meeting of the American Astronomical Society. It’s the most complete picture of the early universe so far, showing galaxies with stars that are already hundreds of millions of years old, along with the unmistakable primordial signs of the first cluster of stars.

posted by Deron Bauman in astronomy, science, space, technology 

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2 Responses to “earliest photo of the universe”

  1. Daryl Scroggins on January 7th, 2010 at 8:02 am

    Doesn’t it mess with your head that you can look at Then and it’s right There and you can see it Now? I wonder if there’s a past inside each of us, and we can look in a specific direction and see ourselves when we were little. Hey–wait a minute….

    Anyway, what I can’t figure is this: if we look at those earliest galaxies, and they are at that point several hundred million years old–could an observer be in a place that would afford a view of their birth? Of the initial moment of the Big Bang? How much do we have to create in order to see what we believe to be there? Birth memory.

  2. Rick Neece on January 7th, 2010 at 9:25 am

    54 light years out there, there is a picture of me bare-bottom up lying on a blanket on a couch. Wait! That picture is also in a stack on the dining room table.

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