Most Massive Galaxy Cluster of Early Universe Discovered

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Most Massive Galaxy Cluster of Early Universe Discovered
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Evil	Oct 16 2010, 01:30 AM Post #1
Administrator Posts: 2,968 Group: Administrators Member #1 Joined: Dec 18, 2008 Region RP Name: Evil Cenotopia Space RP Name: Greys	Quote: The most massive conglomeration of galaxies ever spotted in the early universe has been found, astronomers say. This behemoth galaxy cluster contains about 800 trillion suns packed inside hundreds of galaxies. And it's not even finished growing. The newfound cluster, called SPT-CL J0546-5345, is about 7 billion light-years from Earth, meaning that its light has taken that long to reach us. Thus, astronomers are seeing this clump as it was 7 billion years ago. http://news.yahoo.com/s/space/20101015/sc_space/mostmassivegalaxyclusterofearlyuniversediscovered
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Nuke	Oct 16 2010, 02:31 AM Post #2
Posts: 4,436 Group: Members Member #2 Joined: Dec 19, 2008 Region RP Name: Northern Italian Confederation, Tarkka, Third French Empire Space RP Name: United Federation of Planets	Dibs.
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Evil	Oct 16 2010, 07:26 AM Post #3
Administrator Posts: 2,968 Group: Administrators Member #1 Joined: Dec 18, 2008 Region RP Name: Evil Cenotopia Space RP Name: Greys	After re-reading the article, I find the last sentence of the quote to the most interesting. If we got far enough away from Earth, it might be possible to see how our planet (or at least our galaxy) looked billions of years ago, no?
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Nuke	Oct 16 2010, 08:06 AM Post #4
Posts: 4,436 Group: Members Member #2 Joined: Dec 19, 2008 Region RP Name: Northern Italian Confederation, Tarkka, Third French Empire Space RP Name: United Federation of Planets	Evil Oct 16 2010, 07:26 AM After re-reading the article, I find the last sentence of the quote to the most interesting. If we got far enough away from Earth, it might be possible to see how our planet (or at least our galaxy) looked billions of years ago, no? Theoretically, yes. So long as you can arrive at a point far enough out before the light for our galaxy hits it, you should be able to witness it. Going further, depending on how faster than light travel ultimately will work, I would think it possible that you'd be able to actually see the galaxy grow younger as you moved farther and farther away (seeing more and more light that originated from an earlier period). But, that's all theory. I have a hard enough time with facts.
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Evil	Oct 16 2010, 08:48 AM Post #5
Administrator Posts: 2,968 Group: Administrators Member #1 Joined: Dec 18, 2008 Region RP Name: Evil Cenotopia Space RP Name: Greys	If that was possible and we had much much much better telescopes, I wonder if it would then be possible to observe the life that existed millions of years ago. Kind of like we can zoom in on things that are occurring today with satellites.
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