Astronomers Detect the Earliest Galaxies

FiReaNGeL writes "Astronomers, using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, have uncovered a primordial population of compact and ultra-blue galaxies that have never been seen before. They are from 13 billion years ago, just 600 to 800 million years after the Big Bang. These newly found objects are crucial to understanding the evolutionary link between the birth of the first stars, the formation of the first galaxies, and the sequence of evolutionary events that resulted in the assembly of our Milky Way and the other 'mature' elliptical and majestic spiral galaxies in today's universe."

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Re:Wow, that's astounding

[morgan_greywolf]

Blah blah blah. Look, I don't want to hear about how observations matched predictions. That's not science.

Except, um, that is science. You make observations, study those observations, and come up with a hypothesis about why those observations are occurring. You make a falsifiable prediction, and test that prediction, making more observations. If the observations match your predictions, bam! You now have a working theory.

Now about my racecar on a train thought experiment ....