NYT: Three Dozen New Galaxies Are Found in Nearby Space

[DeepModem Mom]

Three Dozen New Galaxies Are Found in Nearby Space
By DENNIS OVERBYE

Published: December 22, 2004


Fourteen billion years after the Big Bang started it all, there is still life in the old cosmos.

Astronomers announced yesterday that they had discovered three dozen baby galaxies in what passes for nearby space in the universe - two billion to four billion light-years distant. The galaxies, which are blossoming with new stars at a prodigious rate, resemble the infant Milky Way 10 billion years ago, the astronomers said.

Studying these new galaxies could give cosmologists new insights into the processes by which galaxies and stars first formed out of clouds of primordial gas and dust at the beginning of time.

"It's like looking out your window and seeing a dinosaur walk by," said Dr. Tim Heckman of Johns Hopkins University, who led a team using a NASA satellite, the Galaxy Evolution Explorer, or Galex, to pinpoint the newborns. Dr. Heckman spoke in Pasadena, Calif., at a news conference at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, which manages the satellite. A paper describing the results has been submitted to The Astrophysical Journal....


http://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/22/science/space/22galaxy.html

[GreenPartyVoter]

1. Cool!

[cavanaghjam]

2. One more reason

to either weep for the Hubbel or bombard your local representatives with outrage at its being allowed to decay.

[Nothing Without Hope]

4. ...or both

Yes, the spending priorities of this administration are amazingly squalid. Unprecedented debit spending for corporate cronies and the useless death or maiming of thousands, but cut education, health care and support for children and the poor...and this. We need to keep up the drumbeat of protest.

[GOPBasher]

3. That's interesting.

Thanks for posting. :bounce:

[ochazuke]

5. Some galaxies are only three feet away, but they are very tiny.

(from an old Late Nite Top Ten List)

[DeepModem Mom]

6. LOL!

[prayin4rain]

7. Wow. Very cool.

[Liberty Belle]

8. If we find intelligent life...

Can we get them to red states and vote blue?

[loudsue]

9. LOL!! Prolly not! Remember...DINOsaurs??

DINO = Dems In Name Only!! I think we need to give them some time to evolve. We've already got enough knuckle draggers on this planet!

ROFL!! But, it's worth pursuing in the future!! Maybe they'll turn out to be more highly evolved beings, and come SAVE us from the planet we're doing our best to destroy!

:kick::kick:

[Walt Starr]

10. But but but, that's just nonsense! 10 billion years ago wasn't even there!

The universe is only 6000 years old and all!

[bpilgrim]

11. hard to wrap your mind around...

god is DEEP :evilgrin:

peace