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To: average joe who wrote (44757)	1/10/2014 6:11:16 AM
From: Solon	Respond to of 69300

To believe in Genesis (or any of the other of the thousands of creation myths) one needs to believe that none of this ever happened and that Scientific research into the history of the universe and of life is simply a conspiracy. There are no telescopes. There are no satellites. The stars are simply oil lamps hanging in the sky on a metal dome! Time we face the facts that we are being fooled. And time we start to faithfully read our bible every day to learn about true science and true history. Hubble telescope spies deeper for pictures of galaxies from 13.2 billion years ago Images from just 500 million years after Big Bang bring early cosmic treats to life This image made available by the European Space Agency and NASA on Tuesday, Jan. 7, 2014 shows galaxies in the Abell 2744 cluster, and blue galaxies behind it, distorted and amplified by gravitational lensing. The long-exposure image taken with NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope shows some of the intrinsically faintest and youngest galaxies ever detected in visible light.Photograph by: NASA, ESA, and J. Lotz, M. Mount , AP WASHINGTON — The Hubble Space Telescope has peered back to a chaotic time 13.2 billion years ago when never-before-seen galaxies were tiny, bright blue and full of stars bursting to life all over the place. Thanks to some complex physics tricks, NASA’s aging telescope is just starting to see the universe at its infancy in living colour and detail. Images released by NASA on Tuesday show galaxies that are 20 times fainter than those pictured before. They are from a new campaign to have the 23-year-old Hubble gaze much farther away than it was designed to see. “I call it cosmic dawn,” Hubble astronomer Jennifer Lotz said at the American Astronomical Society convention in Washington. “It’s when the lights are coming on.” It was a time when star formation was far more hectic than now. “Imagine if you went back 500 million years after the Big Bang and looked around in the sky,” astronomer Garth Illingworth of the University of California Santa Cruz said. “Galaxies are closer. They’re smaller. They’re bright blue and they’re everywhere. They are probably blobby, small, nothing like our Milky Way.” There were probably no metals at this time, no Earths, said Illingworth, who was on the scientific team using Hubble. “Things look clumpy and kind of weird,” Lotz said. Most of the galaxies then were close to 1,000 times smaller than our Milky Way, but astronomers said they were surprised to discover a few brighter, bigger galaxies sparkling out there. These first pictures showed nearly 3,000 galaxies. Astronomers are still trying to figure out which of those galaxies are ancient and which are more recent. Because light travels nearly 9.6 trillion km a year, as telescopes look farther from Earth they see earlier into the past. While Hubble and other telescopes using different light wavelengths have seen this far back, this is the first complete set of photos in the visible light spectrum the human eye sees. To do this, Hubble is using one of Albert Einstein’s concepts that massive clusters of galaxies have such super gravity that they magnify and stretch light, Lotz said. By focusing on clusters, astronomers use them as natural binoculars to see what’s behind them. The release of the images is significant and important, said Christopher Conselice, a professor at the University of Nottingham in England. Conselice was not part of the Hubble team. “It’ll tell us about how the universe is forming and evolving,” Conselice said after the astronomers’ presentation. “I think they understated it. It could be a fundamental thing.” © Copyright (c)