Hubble Shatters the Cosmic Distance Record

An anonymous reader writes: One of the holy grails of cosmology is to measure, directly, exactly when the first stars and galaxies formed in our Universe. The Hubble Space Telescope has been pushing the distance record farther and farther back, with its measurements typically confirmed by ground-based, spectroscopic follow-ups. This time, however, the new record-holder was so distant that confirmation needed to be done from space: by Hubble itself. The result? A galaxy at a redshift of z=11.1, from when the Universe was just 400 million years old, or a mere 3% of its current age. This is a record that will likely stand until the James Webb Space Telescope launches, as it took a combination of incredible work and incredible luck to find a galaxy this far back with our current technology.

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A sign about the new management?

[Anonymous Coward]

This is one of the things which was discussed when there were requests for simple improvements so it's not something the new owners are unaware of. They are a publishing (and thus partly advertising) company. This is the time when they have to make a stand. Are they for acceptable (small a) advertising or are they going to push everyone to full on ad-blocking?

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• make a list of known malvertisers and block all links to them
• change all Forbes links for some other better source - there should be no link to ever to Forbes
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• try to aim for Nerd sites - think NASA / ESA / actual physicists - rather than mass market news sites
• try to give a link to the original paper or preprint in one of the physics archives

CAPTCHA: outburst - hopefully of common sense but I doubt it.