Surprise Galaxies at the Edge of Observable Space

brindafella writes "A scientist at the Australian National University's Mount Stromlo & Siding Springs Observatories, Dr Paul Francis, has dicovered a string of galaxies 300 light years long, and further out than they 'should' be. The team were refused time on a US telescope because many American astronomers believed the observations were technically impossible. The findings have been presented at the American Astronomical Society meeting in Atlanta. 'We have detected 37 galaxies and one quasar in the string, but it probably contains many thousands of galaxies.' He said the galaxy string lay 10,800 million light-years away. See the animation here."

Comments

The rational US response...

[Anonymous Coward]

...would be to burn the heretic witches before they get another chance at those New South Wales and Chilean telescopes.

Re:Perhaps..

[pvt_medic]

eh, I prefer the egocentrical view that we are right and any contradictory statement is by default wrong... remember we are the center of the universe and the sun revolves around us.

Now dont mind me as I take a stroll to the edge of the world.