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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."

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  1. fp by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    biznitches

    1. Re:fp by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Is that the best you can do? Its not good enough.

  2. I'm amazed by Inthewire · · Score: 2, Offtopic

    ...that this article did not mention the Big Bang.
    If you are interested there is a spectacular book entitled _The_Big_Bang_Never_Happened_ that describes an alternate (and far more rational) cosmology...it posits that the universe is ruled by elecromagnetically active plasmas, and that the behaviors of our universe need not be explained by increasingly unlikely constructions.

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    Writers imply. Readers infer.
  3. Re:hey by Eoli · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I'm the decoy - Also known as a negative-mod-sponge.

  4. Re:Stars by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    And then Santa gets drunk. Like roaring drunk.

    Shit! You know about that too?!

    How have you avoided getting raped by the fat, drunken and sweaty Santa? He's bashed in three of my igloo doors so far and my anus is sore already.

    I'd be grateful for any advice how to keep him away.

  5. Re:hey by come_sucker · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    they observed a faint red blob The red light district is 13.6 billion light years away, cockgobbler

  6. Which one of these words doesn't belong? by ch-chuck · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    - Blob
    - Cluster
    - Clump
    - Hemos
    - Swarm

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    try { do() || do_not(); } catch (JediException err) { yoda(err); }
  7. Re:hey by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    And just why are you doing this?

    Don't you think there are posts that deserve to be moderated to the obsolence? Goatse-posts, trolls and so on?

  8. Uh... by Andorion · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I assumed it was a convention, not automatically added. I gave too much credit to the posters I guess.

    -Berj

  9. For your Friday Amusement by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    succubus
    1.A female demon supposed to descend upon and have sexual intercourse with a man while he sleeps.

    You're welcome.

  10. Re:let me by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Hi mackga, how's it goin' you old child molester?

    I think I speak for all AC's when I say:
    Jesus loves you. Bend Over!

  11. Re:YES!! by Eoli · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I have no idea why you keep posting this (is it supposed to me ASCII art?) but it's definitely amusing.

  12. GOD HATES US ALL! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    God Hates Us All!

  13. A question for the gun-people by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    I was just watching Matrix and the scene in which Neo blasts the bad guys with a gatling gun.

    Now, there's a stream of shell casings falling down from the helicopter but along with the shell casings there's some other, smaller stuff. What is this?

  14. Ever thought of creation ? by carlcmc · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    Moderators hold on to your Troll/Flamebait before actually reading with an open mind.

    The scienctific community constanty evangelizes science, studies, theories etc that can be backed up. As someone in the medical community, studies related to those strike home with me so I'll use those as a stepping stone here. We have COUNTLESS and i repeat COUNTLESS studies demonstrating that prayer to God in a DOUBLE BLIND, RANDOMIZED, and CONTROLLED experiments has a large (not 1 percent but on the orders of 25-50%) impact in a study (sure some studies didn't demonstrate it just like some studies have demonstrated that DiHydrogen Monoxide is dangerous). Simply doing a search in pubmed (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov:80/entrez/query.fcgi? cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=11584476&dopt=Abs tract) will turn up numerous examples from people to animals to bacteria.


    With this body of evidence demonstrate that prayer works EVEN FOR PEOPLE WHO DO NOT NOW THEY ARE BEING PRAYED FOR, is it too much to inject into the creation of the universe debate the thought that PERHAPS God did create the universe like he claims to have done.

    That is all.

    "You can choose to follow God, or you can choose to not follow him--but to say he does not exist is to ignore the evidence"

    1. Re:Ever thought of creation ? by Black+Parrot · · Score: 1, Offtopic


      > We have COUNTLESS and i repeat COUNTLESS studies demonstrating that prayer to God...

      > With this body of evidence demonstrate that prayer works... is it too much to inject into the creation of the universe debate the thought that PERHAPS God did create the universe like he claims to have done.

      Even granting your prayer claims for the sake of argument... by what leap of logic do you invoke the (purported) medical efficacy of prayer to conclude that some particular diety created the universe?

      Also, tell us more about prayer and bacteria. Are we praying for bacteria and then measuring the effect it has on them? Are we praying to the bacteria and getting good results? Or is it the bacteria that are doing the praying?

      Finally, with prayer being so effective, what model of the system explains why people in one part of the world suffer drought while people in another part suffer flood, and they strave and drown simultaneously despite having prayed their saintly arses off?

      Inquiring minds want to know.

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      Sheesh, evil *and* a jerk. -- Jade