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Galaxy Cluster Stuns Scientists—Supermassive and Spewing Out Stars
nationalgeographic.com ^
| August 15, 2012
| Andrew Fazekas
Posted on 08/15/2012 11:05:48 PM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
It seemed too good to be true: a superbright newfound galaxy cluster possibly more massive than any other known, forging fresh stars nearly a thousand times faster than normal.
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TOPICS: Science
KEYWORDS: astronomy; galaxies; phoenixcluster; science; space; starfactory; stars; stringtheory; xplanets
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To: Berlin_Freeper
so what’s 5.7 billion light years between friends?
I can never grasp the numbers, time, distances in astrophysics.
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08/15/2012 11:15:25 PM PDT
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EDINVA
To: Berlin_Freeper
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08/15/2012 11:29:34 PM PDT
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onyx
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To: onyx
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08/15/2012 11:51:59 PM PDT
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Berlin_Freeper
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To: SunkenCiv
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08/16/2012 12:02:52 AM PDT
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Captain Beyond
(The Hammer of the gods! (Just a cool line from a Led Zep song))
To: Berlin_Freeper
To: Berlin_Freeper
Awesome!
Thank you very much, dearest Berlin_FReeper!
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08/16/2012 12:10:07 AM PDT
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onyx
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To: Berlin_Freeper
The tour of Phoenix has more than 300 views than the other, (I can understand why) but none are racking up more viewing numbers. I watched the “tour” twice.
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08/16/2012 12:14:03 AM PDT
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onyx
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To: Berlin_Freeper; fieldmarshaldj; Perdogg; DarthVader; GOPsterinMA; AuH2ORepublican
Is Michelle’s home planet of Kashyyyk in one of those galaxies?
She’s a Wookie from Kashyyyk but she lives on Earth, that does not make sense!
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08/16/2012 12:29:46 AM PDT
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Impy
(Don't call me red.)
To: onyx
Such a pretty wonderment.
My pleasure, onyx. :)
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08/16/2012 12:32:08 AM PDT
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Berlin_Freeper
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To: Berlin_Freeper
And just who the heck dcides what is ‘normal’. L-rd, but ‘scientists’ are so egotistical! As IF the entire universe operates the way they say it SHOULD, and if it doesn’t, well, that’s just abnormal.
To: Berlin_Freeper
Stunningly beautiful. God’s creation.
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08/16/2012 12:41:04 AM PDT
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onyx
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To: Impy
You’re right. I think that it’s clear that we must acquit.
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08/16/2012 2:59:30 AM PDT
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AuH2ORepublican
(If a politician won't protect innocent babies, what makes you think that he'll protect your rights?)
To: MestaMachine
Let’s grant that God gets to decide what’s normal. When a phemenon outdistances other members of it’s class, it’s abnormal. Einstein was abnormally gifted and persistent, by any standard.
This finding is provocative because it appears, to my untutored mind, to challenge conventional cosmology because it’s an outlier. Conventional cosmology claims that there is no center of the Universe, that one patch of the universe, on a large enough scale, is pretty much like any other.
But what if it’s not? That will stand cosmology on it’s figurative head.
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08/16/2012 3:50:43 AM PDT
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Lonesome in Massachussets
(The Democratic Party strongly supports full civil rights for necro-Americans!)
To: MestaMachine
Get a grip on yourself - it's just compared to what has been observed (not dictated by scientists) in other cases.
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08/16/2012 3:58:52 AM PDT
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Moltke
("I am Dr. Sonderborg," he said, "and I don't want any nonsense.")
To: Berlin_Freeper
Is this where a black hole empties out?
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08/16/2012 4:08:03 AM PDT
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bmwcyle
(Corollary - Electing the same person over and over and expecting a different outcome is insanity)
To: Berlin_Freeper
WOW! And what the scientists are seeing (at 5.7 billion light years from Earth) all happened nearly 600 million years before the Earth was even here!
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08/16/2012 4:24:43 AM PDT
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762X51
To: Moltke
I wish I had a nickle for everytime a scientist has said, “We must rethink this.”
My fortune would surpass the richest man on earth and then some.
To: EDINVA
I can never grasp the numbers, time, distances in astrophysics.Heck, I can't even truly grasp 1000 years or miles - I wonder if there's a human being alive who can. Scientists very confidently publish these numbers - millions / billions of years / light years - their "standard" models need these incredible numbers in order to be somewhat credible. How wrong can these models be when they completely ignore so many possibilities - especially the possibility of a creator?
Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools, - Romans 1:22
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08/16/2012 5:41:02 AM PDT
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nomodem
To: Impy
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08/16/2012 6:40:05 AM PDT
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DarthVader
(Politicians govern out of self interest, Statesmen govern for a Vision greater than themselves)
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