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The Most Distant Single Star Was Just Detected, as Ancient as The Cosmic Dawn
https://www.sciencealert.com ^ | 30 MARCH 2022 | MICHELLE STARR

Posted on 03/30/2022 9:27:39 AM PDT by Red Badger

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1 posted on 03/30/2022 9:27:39 AM PDT by Red Badger
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To: MtnClimber; SunkenCiv; SuperLuminal

Ping!...................


2 posted on 03/30/2022 9:28:09 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

Scientists nicknamed it Earendel, from the Anglo-Saxon word meaning “morning star”

How utterly Euro-centric and racist of those oppressive, unawake scientists.


3 posted on 03/30/2022 9:31:47 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (“Sorry, I’m not a biologist.”)
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To: Red Badger

“...900 million years after the Big Bang...”

Not 901 million years or 899 million years. No it’s exactly 900 million years.

And we have 8 more years before the planet is destroyed by the combustion engine and Piltdown Man.


4 posted on 03/30/2022 9:40:37 AM PDT by Flavious_Maximus (Fauci is a murderer)
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To: Red Badger

It’s called the Pelosi star


5 posted on 03/30/2022 9:46:29 AM PDT by 2nd Amendment
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To: Red Badger

Tolkien also availed himself of the name. :^) Thanks RB.


6 posted on 03/30/2022 9:50:07 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: SunkenCiv
Yes. Éadwine's ship.
7 posted on 03/30/2022 9:55:05 AM PDT by Bloody Sam Roberts (Imagine, if you will, a vaccine so safe you have to be threatened to take it. )
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To: 2nd Amendment

Biden Star............. It’s so old nobody can see it................


8 posted on 03/30/2022 9:55:57 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

When you wish upon a star...that star has been dead for a millions years. Like your dreams.


9 posted on 03/30/2022 10:03:58 AM PDT by Puppage (You may disagree with what I have to say, but I shall defend to your death my right to says it.)
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To: Flavious_Maximus

The actual measured redshift of the Balmer line from the Nature paper was 6.2 ± 0.1. This means that at the time the light left the star all the objects in the universe were about 6.2 times closer together with a 10% error. The time estimate should be 900 million years with a 10% error (890 - 990 million years) after the Big Bang. Good catch.


10 posted on 03/30/2022 10:06:13 AM PDT by Dave Wright
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To: SunkenCiv
I had the same thought...

11 posted on 03/30/2022 10:08:11 AM PDT by major_gaff (University of Parris Island, Class of '84)
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To: Puppage

That’s the Disney Theme song..................


12 posted on 03/30/2022 10:10:15 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: Bloody Sam Roberts; major_gaff

I think I’ll look for an unabridged audiobook of LOTR, those are great for the commute and other riding time.

http://tolkiengateway.net/wiki/Song_of_E%C3%A4rendil


13 posted on 03/30/2022 10:11:16 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: Red Badger

Bwahahahaha!


14 posted on 03/30/2022 10:27:09 AM PDT by Puppage (You may disagree with what I have to say, but I shall defend to your death my right to says it.)
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To: Flavious_Maximus

In the meantime we are being treated to the gentle ministrations of Verbal Beatdown Karen.


15 posted on 03/30/2022 10:35:31 AM PDT by one guy in new jersey
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To: SunkenCiv
I have the three books on Audible read by Rob Inglis that are
excellent...listen to them every other year or so...
16 posted on 03/30/2022 10:36:13 AM PDT by major_gaff (University of Parris Island, Class of '84)
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To: major_gaff

Thanks, good to get a recommendation, the titles on Amazon have some consistent problems in the critical reviews.


17 posted on 03/30/2022 10:42:23 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: major_gaff

Is it just Rob, or is it a dramatization “full cast” recording? The way Amazon links its reviews is like old people do the nasty.


18 posted on 03/30/2022 10:53:38 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: SunkenCiv

Does that make us nerds if we automatically knew the name was a Tolkien character?


19 posted on 03/30/2022 10:55:49 AM PDT by Sawdring
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To: Sawdring

Oh, I don’t think there was any risk that we wouldn’t be considered nerds anyway. ;^)


20 posted on 03/30/2022 10:57:21 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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