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The 1st Generation of Stars
Andy_Howell writes "Astronomers may have found members of the first generation of stars in the universe. Using the Hubble Space Telescope and the Keck I telescope, they observed a faint red blob that had been magnified into a double image by a gravitational lens. The blob was found to be a cluster of stars 13.6 billion light years away, seen when the age of the universe was less than a billion years old. The clump appears to contain only about a million stars, and is less than a few million years old. It is thought that swarms of these clumps came together over the age of the universe to create the galaxies we see today."
What if the universe were to wrap around itself, and we were actually staring at our backs? If there were some ultra-ultra-mega-super-densely packed gravity well or something in the center of our universe, we'd be going, "Man..thats an old ass.." but we'd be staring at our own and stuff.
Job? I don't have time to get a job! Who will sit around and bitch about being broke and unemployed then?
U GOTS TO B KIDDING ME..........BRITNEY SPEARS IS LIKE THE FIRST AND BESTEST EVER ... THERE AINT NO STARS B4 HER IN MY BOOK!!!!!!!!!!!! I LUV BILLY!!!!!!!
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Is your boss an astronomer or something? Or are you just finding yourself strangely attracted to men with big telescopes?
Interesting. I've never liked the idea of a Big Bang because it seems to contradict everything I have been told. Of course those who told me these things have never looked through a telescope, even less measured the redshift of galaxies or the cosmic background radiation, but they were the first to tell me how things were created, and that's that.
So I'm ready to beleive in anything other than the big bang because, if I'm going to admit that I was off-track all of these years, at least I can take confort in thinking that those bigbang scientists were wrong too. With a new theory, we're all equal and starting anew, it's not like I'm 50 years behind the curve anymore.
Most astronomers had previously ignored these stars, which had been modded down heavily for posting annoying "First star!" messages.
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No, I think you'll find those stars are actualy quite hot. Well, were. I guess they're cool -now-.
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there will always be someone like you. there will always be people that believe thoes kinds of things, and that is unfortunate. even with the facts laid out, rite in front of their faces, they still choose not to accept them. i could go on for hours, or just show u a picture, to represent the indever of the religious fanatic:
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