Posted on 12/27/2014 4:18:14 PM PST by BenLurkin
Astronomers searching the sky with NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have discovered an odd little dwarf galaxy in our very own backyard -- a mere 7 million light years away..
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Given that these isolated dwarf spheroidal galaxies are so hard to find, there could be many more of these fascinating galactic fossils just hanging out in the darkness of our own intergalactic neighborhood, just waiting to be found,
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Thanks BenLurkin, extra to APoD (no pictures though).
It’s INFINITY!! There is NO end to space.
I've always wondered whether there is an end to our universe. Though we haven't seen it, and might not be able to contemplate it, I believe there is. Perhaps there are multiple universes, as there are multiple galaxies and solar systems. There's so much we have no knowledge of, and we don't know about what we don't know. lol
They like to be called little people galaxy. /s
Oops, looks like the secret's out......where did you think Santa's helpers come from, Cleveland?
If any life is later observed there, will the journalists be quick to denounce this “finding” or “discovery” the way they exclaim that Christopher Columbus didn’t discover anything?
We thought the Milky Way was the entire universe till the 1930s. That must have been a pretty astounding realization and then they could only spot a handful of other galaxies.
They would be astounded that we can see billions of galaxies as much as 14 billion light years away.
The universe is expanding. Depending on the amount of matter, it will either continue to expand forever, or stop expanding and then start contracting and result in a big crash, the reverse of the big bang.
Try reading Hawking's, "A Brief History of Time"
Of course, God may have other plans!
Yes, indeed, discovering that the "nebula" were "island universes," that the galaxies outnumber the stars in our own, was pretty humbling. It still is.
Now that NASA is reaching out to muzzies, they have to change the name of the telescope to the “Hubble Bubble”
Yeah, I believe it was Hubble that found the “Andromeda Nebula” was actually a galaxy, much like our own, when looking at it through his telescope. Until that point, we thought our own Milky Way Galaxy WAS the entirety of the universe! That was an awakening, if there ever was one!
Now it seems boundless.
I personally suspect our universe may be one of many that are expanding into something even bigger.
Nope, unpossible. Galaxies have mass. Science! has determined dark matter makes up the rest so this was an optical illusion of swamp gas reflecting of Hubble’s sensors.
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Our entire universe is probably inside of a molecule that’s in a chair leg somewhere we can’t comprehend! LOL
Probably finite (think of a partially inflated balloon. Still expanding says the astrophysicists and expanding faster than light at that. They can track it back 13.8 billion years till it was an impossibly small dot.
I dote on this stuff.
Hubble also discovered the Red Shift, which led to the Big Bang theory.
Betty Jo beloski. Audrey Farber....but everyone knew her as nancy.
Actually Monseigneur Georges Lemaître was the first to propose an expanding universe.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georges_Lema%C3%AEtre
The fact that he was a man of the cloth makes it hard for modern science to credit Lemaître but Hubble himself was known to credit the priest with the genesis of the theory.
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