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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. Dumb cosmology question? by MacAndrew · · Score: 3, Interesting

    If everything started with a Big Bang from a singularity roughly 10-20 billion years ago, how is it that things came to be physcially 13 billion or more light years apart? I understand that the "Doppler" redshift is caused by great speed away from us. But is the universe seriously expanding at anything near lightspeed?

    Some suggest that initial expansion was faster than light speed, and that the Hubble expansion is accelerating.