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VLT Smashes Record of Farthest Known Galaxy

Posted by Hemos on from the smashing-the-records dept.

rduke15 writes "From this press release of the European Southern Observatory : 'Named Abell 1835 IR1916, the newly discovered galaxy [...] is located about 13,230 million light-years away. It is therefore seen at a time when the Universe was merely 470 million years young[...].' More details and pictures here."

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  1. Re:It's expanding "Into" itself by eglamkowski · · Score: -1, Troll

    Now imagine your rubber sheet started out as an infinite plane: it is no more infinite after stretching than before, yet all distances have increased.

    Except that there are different sizes of infinity.

    There are infinite number of integers, yes?
    Now map the real numbers to integers on a one-to-one basis. Oops, a one-to-one mapping is not possible! There are more real numbers then there are integers!

    So it's not quite as trivial as you suggest.

    But them, I'm neither mathematician nor astrophysicist... :-p

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