Hubble Finds Unidentified Object in Space, Scientists Puzzled
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one would imagine 11 Billion Years
isnt a light year different to a normal human year?
Yeah, they're like dog years you know. For every one human year, light ages 7 years. Fact.
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Im going to spoil everyones fun and just tell you that its the distance that light travels in a year.
muahahahaha
edit: Well that's what I get for not refreshing the page before I post
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that photo is amazing, got a bigger copy for a desktop background?
Was reading new scientist this week and they have a report on the hubble repairs about to take place. One fascinating fact was that they are going to replace the hubble camera which at the moment is about as good as a current mobile phone one!! 684000 pixels. Which was designed in the early 1990's.
They are putting in a nice 16Mpixel badboy! cant wait for the new photos
They are putting in a nice 16Mpixel badboy! cant wait for the new photos
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No it didnt it just gave you an insight into how much I know about the subject. I know light years are measured in distance, but from a source other than our suns Im not so sure about.
I suggest you go check said OP's created threads history. It will reveal the true intended nature of this thread
are you seriously that naive to believe that in the short few thousand years of existance of mankind
we have understood everything that the potentially infinite skies have to offer ?
The size of space is almost beyond comprehension, and you refuse to believe theres stuff out there we havent discovered or understood yet ?
Bet you would have been a right ray of sunshine when they discovered the atom.
That would be a pretty complex system that measures it on the year of a particular planet (randomly chosen?) of the star of origin of the light.
What you talkin' about willis? I never said I don't think alien life exists... I just don't think its playing a game of chicken with the hubble telescope for its own amusement. Plus Teki reads that and in his head the scientist who found it turned to a 5 star general that happened to be in the room, said something along the lines of "sir... its slowing down" then all red flashing lights went off and soldiers with m16s started frantically running around.
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doesnt matter what the source is bud
It can be a star as well. If a star or other celestial body (sp?) emits light, its distance from the earth can be measured in light years, as a measure of how long the light it emits took to reach us
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im failing to see anything in either of those pictures. one is grainy and one isnt.
Right.
I don't think you're supposed to recognize anything, just notice the difference.
Be interesting to know what it was, even if it is just some uninteresting space phenomena.
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