Astronomers Detect the Earliest Galaxies

Posted by kdawson on Tuesday January 5, 2010 @10:00AM from the from-little-seeds dept.

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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Horse pussy! by Anonymous Coward · 2010-01-05 10:40 · Score: -1, Troll

The Earth is only 6000 years old as scientifically proven by The Bible. The Bible says the Earth is 6000 years old. The Bible says it is the word of God. Ipso facto - the Earth is 6000 years old. Case closed. Next!