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."

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Yet another nail into Big Bang's heart...

[curious.corn]

... and they were even denied the 'scope to perform the observations!? (yeah, like the "Kid, don't bother us with that Lun'ux on our NT Backoffice" crap I was given 3 years ago...)
Ah, like all other human things, politics, jealousy and orthodoxy are science's greatest pain in the ass. It's a real shame that you have to wait for the white beards to retire or die before scrapping their pet theories or get out of the basement and have a real lab...
Now, I wonder what kind of superforce, string, lace, lasso, wimp, buga-uaba will jump out of the hat to save the BB this time... hmm... stars just minutes after the blast?... He, he...