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To: longshadow
How faint would a dwarf have to be for the universe to be 20 billion years old? Really really faint, I guess. :)
104 posted on 04/24/2002 9:23:35 PM PDT by apochromat
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To: apochromat
How faint would a dwarf have to be for the universe to be 20 billion years old? Really really faint, I guess. :)

They apparently are running at the edge of the sensitivity of the old Hubble scope equipment; this is why they selected M4 -- they just didn't have enough sensitivity to see dwarfs that old any farther away that M4 is.

119 posted on 04/24/2002 9:50:24 PM PDT by longshadow
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