[Red Badger]

Genesis 1

The Beginning

In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters. And God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light. ...

[Red Badger]

PING!..................

[Texas Eagle]

The earth is only about 4 billion years old. What we call a year is how long it takes for the earth to orbit the sun.
How can they know how long anything took to travel anywhere before the earth existed?

[sauropod]

Bkmk

[lee martell]

So much science and technology is being spent on discovering the point of origin for our universe. I’m thinking it may be an elaborate waste of time and money, because the origin of our particular universe may simply be unknowable, something that can be concluded but never fully verified.
The pursuit of that information does keep several thousands of highly skilled professionals actively employed.
So there’s that.

[I want the USA back]

Somebody ‘splain please! It took over 13 billion years for the light to get here. So it’s over 13 billion light years away. I thought the universe was much smaller then, and things were not far from each other because the universe hadn’t expanded so much.

So why does this light source appear so far away in the telescope?

[Steely Tom]

JWST is the most unbelievable instrument.

It’s focal-plane arrays are cooled to 6 Kelvin. That’s six degrees above absolute zero. It’s wavelength sensitivity goes out to 28 μm; the best Earth-bound night vision cameras go out to 14 μm. That limit is set not by the image detector, it’s set by the temperature of the camera itself.

This allows it to detect photons from incredible distances, that have been stretched out by Hubble expansion across the width of the known universe.

[econjack]

You can’t fool me! That red dot is the result of a sneeze.

[Ezekiel]

A galaxy from just 330 million years after the Big Bang has been caught emitting a specific type of light (Lyman-alpha) that normally gets blocked by the early universe’s dense hydrogen fog

And then they discovered that nobody was home!

Whatever is powering this ancient light source, its discovery reshapes our understanding of how the universe transitioned from darkness to light. Until recently, the consensus among astronomers was that reionization did not begin until the Universe was around half a billion years old, completing another half billion years later. But this study pushes the beginning of reionization significantly earlier than previously thought.

Whatever happened to their sixth cents? It sure would go a long way in solving these sorts of mysteries.

[lurk]

We haven’t even found the center of the universe, and likely never will. What’s all this stuff about finding the beginning?

[DannyTN]

If power flickers and they will all start flashing, it will tell us that they are smart lights.

[voicereason]

And God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light. ...

After Chuck Norris said, "Say Please!"

[SuperLuminal]

"... almost 13.5 billion years ..."

Re-post this when they report it accurately within 10 days of God throwing the dice...

[Scrambler Bob]

A galaxy from just 330 million years after the Big Bang has been caught emitting a specific type of light
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I’ll bet the light pulses blinked

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[Nifster]

The Webb was my last project It was called Girst Light

We got the grind right