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  1. I can now relate to when rob says that thinking about certain things (many things actually) makes his head hurt. Thinking about this makes mine hurt…..

    Farthest-Away Galaxy Yet Is Discovered By European Astronomers

    A European team of astronomers discovered the farthest-away galaxy ever, with light that began shining when the universe was only about 600 million years old.
    The galaxy, UDFy-38135539, began forming when the universe, not yet transparent, was covered in a hydrogen fog that absorbed light from young galaxies, according to a report in tomorrow’s edition of the journal Nature.
    The Big Bang that formed the universe, according to scientists’ prevailing theory, occurred an estimated 13.7 billion years ago.

    Finding the oldest galaxies such as UDFy-38135539 is difficult because their once-bright light now falls into the infrared part of the spectrum. The expansion of the universe over billions of years has stretched the light’s wavelength, according to scientists.

    After the Big Bang, the theory goes, the universe expanded and cooled, losing enough heat so that protons and electrons combined to form neutral hydrogen, which consists of a single proton orbited by a single electron. Neutral hydrogen is relatively opaque. At some point, electrons began to split off, forming ionized hydrogen, a substance that is relatively clear, allowing people to see the universe.
    Galaxy UDFy-38135539 is from the period when reionization was taking place, Bremer said. The neutral hydrogen was probably changed by radiation from hot, bright stars in the first galaxies, and UDFy-38135539 may have been a source of that radiation, Bremer said.

  2. By dirty_hipster on October 20, 2010 2:51 PM

    “divorce court” is the best show ever

    some guy is divorcing his wife because she demands too much sex and he caught her making out with a chick

    dh,
    that’s not Divorce Court,
    that’s Ripley’s Believe it or NOt!

  3. By more4less on October 20, 2010 2:42 PM

    ENY, as much as Rob doesnt want to admit it, our knowledge is rubbing off on him (as he’s rubbing off on some of us).

    **

    I wouldn’t go quite that far. But he has made some good points today.

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