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To: LibWhacker

I think they’re going to find objects much farther away than this, once the James Webb Space Telescope is up and running (around 2018/2019). With its ability to see far into the infrared, I think they’re going to find out that they really have no idea how big, and how old, the universe really is.


4 posted on 03/04/2016 4:49:55 AM PST by Sicon ("All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others." - G. Orwell)
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To: Sicon

As I understand it, their logic was (The Big was 13.8 billion years ago - Red Shift of new was 13.4 billion years ago) = This galaxy formed a mere 400,000,000 years after the Big Bang.

Seems to me that the discovery of a galaxy this old should throw their assumption about how long ago the Big Bang happened and age of the universe into question.


14 posted on 03/04/2016 6:19:43 AM PST by Personal Responsibility (We need a separation of press and state !)
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To: Sicon
The James Webb Space Telescope is named for an early NASA administrator, not for the former senator Jim Webb.

That's good because NASA won't have to rename it if Hillary gets elected (now that Jim Webb says he won't vote for her).

24 posted on 03/04/2016 9:19:18 AM PST by Verginius Rufus
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