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NASA's Webb Telescope Spots Galaxies Merging Around 'Monster' Black Hole...The next-gen instrument captures a rare, and rather extreme, cosmic scene.
CNet ^ | Oct. 24, 2022 12:35 p.m. PT | Monisha Ravisetti

Posted on 10/24/2022 1:13:35 PM PDT by Red Badger

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To: John S Mosby
The light has been traveling in this direction for 11.5 billion years. The earth is supposed to be something like 4.5 billion years old. So the light was headed this way for 7 billion years before the earth existed.

Traveling all that time and it never got tired.

21 posted on 10/24/2022 3:12:20 PM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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To: Red Badger

...but our SUVs will destroy the planet...


22 posted on 10/24/2022 3:13:19 PM PDT by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes.)
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To: Telepathic Intruder

you dont understand... if “Galaxies” that are millions of light years across like ours is. showing up THAT small and blurry, any movemnet of 1 fraction of the size of the galaxy would equate to 50,000 to 100,000 years!!! these friggin people make it sound like clouds on your doppler example. that they see em move in real time!!


23 posted on 10/24/2022 3:56:26 PM PDT by sit-rep ( )
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To: jonrick46

“I hope this does not happen to our galaxy. “

If it does, we can be sure our rulers will insist that global socialism is the only way to save ourselves.


24 posted on 10/24/2022 4:17:33 PM PDT by ModelBreaker
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To: Bubba_Leroy
"Out here on the perimeter, there are no stars Out here we is stoned, immaculate"

Jim Morrison.

25 posted on 10/24/2022 4:30:20 PM PDT by Right Brigade (It was better before they voted for whats his name,this must be the New World)
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To: Red Badger

Universal accelerated expansion is driven by expanding space. This would also mean that space is accelerated-ly shrinking the event horizons and accretion disks around black holes, and introducing more mass into 3-dimensional space at an accelerating rate.


26 posted on 10/24/2022 4:34:13 PM PDT by nagant
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To: rellic

It has been said that the Northern Hemisphere civilization developed more rapidly than the Southern Hemisphere merely due to the fact that the Northern Hemisphere has Polaris (the North Star).


27 posted on 10/24/2022 4:48:11 PM PDT by HandyDandy (Life is what you make it.)
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To: HandyDandy

never heard that but it seems logical... we were able to use it to navigate thus learning from and building on the jones’s!!


28 posted on 10/24/2022 5:08:08 PM PDT by sit-rep ( )
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To: HandyDandy

Southern cross works pretty good also.


29 posted on 10/24/2022 5:13:51 PM PDT by rellic
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To: Red Badger

Ford stopped making the Galaxie in 1974 and the last Quasar TVs were make in 2005.


30 posted on 10/24/2022 5:17:38 PM PDT by Hillarys Gate Cult
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To: Bubba_Leroy

Yes! If the universe, or what I like to call “existence” is infinite, then it goes without saying biological intelligence would exist. It’s mind bending, but I tell you, and people do not believe me when I say this: I remember being in the womb. I remember being smaller than the smallest and when I was a toddler, I use to freak out about it, so it makes me wonder how is that possible unless there is a soul?


31 posted on 10/24/2022 5:45:14 PM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda (As long as Hillary Clinton remains free, the USA will never have equal justice under the law)
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To: HandyDandy

Maybe recently, but Polaris was not always the pole star.

https://earthsky.org/astronomy-essentials/north-star-movement/

Taking turns as the North Star

A motion of Earth called precession causes our axis to trace out an imaginary circle on the celestial sphere every 26,000 years. Thousands of years ago, when the pyramids were rising from the sands of ancient Egypt, the North Star was an inconspicuous star called Thuban in the constellation Draco the Dragon. Twelve thousand years from now, the blue-white star Vega in the constellation Lyra will be a much brighter North Star than our current Polaris.

Polaris could be a name for any North Star. Our current Polaris used to be called Phoenice. It is the 49th brightest star in the sky. It is not known for its brightness, but for its unique position in the sky.


32 posted on 10/24/2022 5:59:51 PM PDT by Pete from Shawnee Mission ( )
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To: sit-rep

I’m sorry, that’s not how the Doppler effect works. It doesn’t matter how big or far away the source of light is. The light it gives off will shift to higher or lower frequency depending on its speed relative to the observer. This tells you how fast it is either approaching or receding. You don’t actually have to see it moving. This is how cops can instantly tell exactly how fast your car is going using a radar gun.


33 posted on 10/24/2022 6:43:34 PM PDT by Telepathic Intruder
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To: Telepathic Intruder

i do not believe they are even remotely the same. there is no way that movement can be detected in a span of say ten years that is 1.5 billion light years away. unless they can physically show me 3 individual frames that differ showing the movement. And I doubt then i’d fully buy it! the colors you see are not temperatures or speeds. they are added for visual purposes to show the different galaxies...

I’ve followed these threads for years and mainly because the fake news/photos from APOD CONSTANTLY, i find it hard to believe ANYTHING out of the space agency anymore.


34 posted on 10/24/2022 7:49:32 PM PDT by sit-rep ( )
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To: sit-rep

As I said, it has nothing to do with detecting movement, but what the Doppler shifting of its light tells you. This technology has been around for a long time. You may believe what you wish, however.


35 posted on 10/24/2022 8:10:33 PM PDT by Telepathic Intruder
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To: know.your.why

It’s rare, safe and effective...................😜


36 posted on 10/25/2022 5:03:31 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: rellic

We will know when the “BIG ONE” is coming...................


37 posted on 10/25/2022 5:05:08 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: sit-rep

Differing amounts of Red Shift.....................


38 posted on 10/25/2022 5:22:04 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: Red Badger

We can see things 11.5 billion light years away but can’t know who won an election on election night. Yea, right.


39 posted on 10/25/2022 5:26:10 AM PDT by Vision (Elections are one day. Reject "Chicago" vote harvesting. Election Reform Now. Obama is an evildoer.)
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To: Red Badger; Telepathic Intruder
: red shift

the displacement of spectral lines toward longer wavelengths (the red end of the spectrum) in radiation from distant galaxies and celestial objects. This is interpreted as a Doppler shift that is proportional to the velocity of recession and thus to distance.

Input mode is not totally shut down over here. And this minute mind slightly understands this red shift theory however... I'm still of mind that regardless of how it's detected, that size and object... Millions of light years of size, and billions of lights years away, would have to be moving at an extremely astronomical rate to be detected in a span of 5... 10... 15 years. And if the big bang theory is true all these galaxies should be moving close to parallel not coming into each other from different angles... I must be missing something huge lol... Blame my trust of modern chemistry in the 70s for it!!

40 posted on 10/25/2022 6:37:52 AM PDT by sit-rep ( )
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