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New Universe map unearths 300,000 more galaxies
AFP ^ | 2/19/19 | Staff

Posted on 02/19/2019 5:35:02 PM PST by Openurmind

The known Universe just got a lot bigger.

A new map of the night sky published Tuesday charts hundreds of thousands of previously unknown galaxies discovered using a telescope that can detect light sources optical instruments cannot see.

The international team behind the unprecedented space survey said their discovery literally shed new light on some of the Universe's deepest secrets, including the physics of black holes and how clusters of galaxies evolve.

"This is a new window on the universe," Cyril Tasse, an astronomer at the Paris Observatory who was involved in the project, told AFP.

"When we saw the first images we were like: 'What is this?!' It didn't look anything at all like what we are used to seeing."

https://www.afp.com/en/news/15/new-universe-map-unearths-300000-more-galaxies-doc-1dl6xk1

(Excerpt) Read more at afp.com ...


TOPICS: Astronomy; Education; Science
KEYWORDS: astronomy; lofar; science; stringtheory
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To: Openurmind

Ping me if you do that...damn.


21 posted on 02/19/2019 6:15:32 PM PST by afterhoursarmory
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To: Larry Lucido

lol


22 posted on 02/19/2019 6:17:38 PM PST by sit-rep
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To: Larry Lucido

lol


23 posted on 02/19/2019 6:17:44 PM PST by sit-rep
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To: beethovenfan

As a lay person I wrote a sermon years ago - using that old Hubble image of all of the galaxies and stars. It was one snap shot and was something like .01% of the entire Hubble coverage.

It was an example of God’s power, and the infinite nature of God. And what other purpose might it server? “But maybe it is like a father spreading out his arms to his little child - exclaiming ‘I love you THIS much!’. And of course Jesus also spread out his arms - on the cross - showing how much he loves us.”


24 posted on 02/19/2019 6:29:05 PM PST by 21twelve (!)
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To: SamAdams76

Not really. The universe is immensely big but it is not infinite. One way we know that is that the night sky is not bright with light from an infinite expanse of galaxies and stars.


25 posted on 02/19/2019 6:36:17 PM PST by Rockingham
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To: a fool in paradise

Yeah, my girlfriend makes the same complaint against the mirror that hangs on the back of the door to the closet.


26 posted on 02/19/2019 6:39:41 PM PST by Rockingham
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To: Rockingham

But I think we will keep on finding new galaxies. Old ones die out and new ones are born.


27 posted on 02/19/2019 6:45:58 PM PST by SamAdams76
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To: Openurmind

That’s unsustainable!

/s


28 posted on 02/19/2019 6:48:26 PM PST by fruser1
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To: Openurmind

The universe is infinite. Get used to it and invent warp drive.


29 posted on 02/19/2019 6:58:15 PM PST by CTyank
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To: Rockingham

Wrong. We are observing from “our” timeline. We are very young compared to what we know the universe to be. Before us the universe made many, many changes as we came into being (violently in fact in ways we could not survive). It will continue to as well; until the end of everything. When all matter is expended; super massive black holes rule and the temperature of the universe drops so cold a single thought (by means of what we know it today) will take a trillion years because there is no energy left. We expand into nothing and lose all energy.


30 posted on 02/19/2019 6:59:34 PM PST by afterhoursarmory
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To: SamAdams76

Although the issue is disputed as to the details, the Universe almost certainly has a lifespan and will likely end when the hydrogen available as fuel for stars is exhausted. Alternatively, gravity may eventually produce a collapse back into a single massive object.


31 posted on 02/19/2019 7:00:41 PM PST by Rockingham
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To: Openurmind

Adding 300,000 to 15 billion doesn’t really amount to much.


32 posted on 02/19/2019 7:02:28 PM PST by dead (Our next president is going to be sooooo boring.)
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To: Openurmind

So many Galaxies, yet only ours has Uranus.


33 posted on 02/19/2019 7:05:45 PM PST by FreeReign
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To: Openurmind

300,000 Galaxie 500’s?
I thought Ford quit making them?


34 posted on 02/19/2019 7:06:41 PM PST by HereInTheHeartland (I don't want better government; I want much less of it.)
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To: afterhoursarmory

I agree with your projection as to the fate of the Universe. It is consistent with my point that if the Universe were infinite and stuffed with stars and galaxies, we would see evidence of that in a bright sky at night.


35 posted on 02/19/2019 7:14:34 PM PST by Rockingham
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To: Fungi
Bing is defective. I punched up 'Genesis', but this one only makes galaxies one planet at a time.............


36 posted on 02/19/2019 7:16:17 PM PST by Viking2002
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To: CondorFlight

I don’t know which bible you are reading and I don’t understand what the point is you are trying to convey.


37 posted on 02/19/2019 7:19:00 PM PST by TexasGator (Z1z)
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To: Popman
I unearthed one in my back yard. They're not all as big as you think they are.


38 posted on 02/19/2019 7:31:12 PM PST by TigersEye (This is the age of the death of reason.)
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To: Openurmind

There goes Dark matter theory. Good riddance.


39 posted on 02/19/2019 7:38:50 PM PST by Crucial
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To: a fool in paradise

“There is a giant mirror at the edge of the universe that makes the space appear to be even larger...”

Bravissimo. There is a fence at the edge of the universe that just keeps getting pushed back. What is behind the fence? Emptiness? Future universe? Nope. Pure power.


40 posted on 02/19/2019 8:15:37 PM PST by Falconspeed
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