Hubble's 'zoom lens' probes deeply (First use of a unique magnification technique!)

BBC News ^ | Friday, 10 January, 2003, 22:09 GMT | By Dr David Whitehouse

[vannrox]

Way Cool.

[jimkress]

What wonders God hath wrought!

[friendly]

I read where there were less ultra distant galaxies than expected in the image. God knows (literally) what that means. My guess is that it is a manifestation of the escalating acceleration (actually expansion of space) under the influence of the dark energy which dominates the cosmos.

[Centurion2000]

Astronomers speculate that some of the faintest objects in the picture are over 13 billion light-years away.

That's great, but WE're never going to get there.

[LiteKeeper]

YEC read later

[Chemnitz]

Genesis 1:1

[Ann Archy]

I have a hat signed bySteve Smith who fixed the Hubble so that we could see great pics like this...thanks Steve...and thank God FOR people like Steve!!

[LiteKeeper]

Some alternative reference material:

How can we see distant stars in a young Universe?

Starlight Wars: Starlight and Time withstands attacks

A plausible scientific solution to the distant starlight problem.

[evolved_rage]

Cool, found a bigger picture

7-January-2003 The Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) aboard the Hubble Space Telescope has used a natural "zoom lens" in space to boost its view of the distant universe. Besides offering an unprecedented and dramatic new view of the cosmos, the results promise to shed light on galaxy evolution and dark matter in space. Hubble peered straight through the center of one of the most massive galaxy clusters known, called Abell 1689. For this observation, Hubble had to gaze at the distant cluster, located 2.2 billion light-years away, for more than 13 hours. The gravity of the cluster's trillion stars—plus dark matter—acts as a 2-million-light-year-wide "lens" in space. This "gravitational lens" bends and magnifies the light of galaxies located far behind it, distorting their shapes and creating multiple images of individual galaxies.

http://hubble.gsfc.nasa.gov/project-news/astronomy/2003-jan.html#faint_darkages

[Paul Atreides]

Hubble's 'zoom lens' probes deeply

And, nine months later...

[ALOHA RONNIE]

...and so we are blessed to see with our own Eyes and Souls that...

...beyond the darkness of the Physical Universe lays...

...the Light of the LOVE itself.

...Praise GOD that...

...LOVE is the Only Reality and...

...GOD is LOVE.

[evolved_rage]

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

...under the influence of the dark energy which dominates the cosmos.

You rang?

[friendly]

GIVE IN... GIVE IN TO THE DARK FORCE...

[friendly]

Actually the matter and energy we are familiar with constitutes less than 5% of the cosmos. Dark matter, which is to say a completely unknown type of matter, surrounds all galaxies in a vast halo around each. Recently a completely unknown type of energy (Dark energy)was found to dominate the universe and be the largest constituent of the cosmos. Dark enery is pulling the galaxies apart at an accelerating rate.

[Phil V.]

I tried one of your links. This came up . . .

(How can we see distant stars in a young Universe?) . . . Perhaps the most commonly used explanation is that God created light ‘on its way’, so that Adam could see the stars immediately without having to wait years for the light from even the closest ones to reach the earth. While we should not limit the power of God, this has some rather immense difficulties.

I encountered immense difficulties and could not continue. Thank you for your contribution.

[Joy Angela]

Astronomers speculate that some of the faintest objects in the picture are over 13 billion light-years away.

But the LIGHT reaches us in the Present Moment!

This moment is the first and the last step of Life's journey...no matter how far away a star's light may have begun, it's splendor travels with us now,

[RightWhale]

WE're never going to get there.

Tourist Guy will.

[oldtimer]

Last I heard the closest star is 3 light years away.

Einstein postulated that at 186,000 miles per second (the speed of light), it had to be pure light (energy) I don't think we're going to get there either.

[RightWhale]

Gen 1:3 . . . Let there be light . . . .
Gen 1:14 . . . Let there be lights in the firmament . . . .