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Earliest Stellar Objects Found

Posted by chrisd on from the virtual-classes-for-the-universe dept.

Microsofts slave writes "Scientists belive that they have found the earliest objects (new zork times registration required) in space. 26 galaxies and three quasars were observed at thirteen billion light years away, at time when the universe is belived to have been only 1 billion years old."

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  1. Re:Dumb cosmology question? by smallfries · · Score: 2, Insightful

    whereas the volume of the universe is infinite.

    How do you know / suspect this? I'm not suggesting that you're wrong, I'm just wondering what the evidence to support it is. After all if its outside of the observable universe, how can we tell what features it has?

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