Galaxy Cluster blows minds, bends light.

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The image above is a galaxy cluster recently discovered by the South Pole telescope by a team of Astronomers. What can be seen is the weight of 800 trillion Suns, it is that massive!

The galaxy in view is 7 billion light years away.

Gizmodo said:
This light was emitted when ions and electrons first combined to form atoms just after the Big Bang, and has been traveling through the rest of the matter in the universe for the last 13.7 billion years or so to reach telescopes on Earth. As the light passes through massive galaxy clusters, it can get distorted in a phenomenon called the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect.

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Our solar system didn't even exist when the light you see above in the image began its 41149498700000000000000 mile journey!

A slightly more detailed source @ ScienceDaily
 
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ummm what exactly am i looking at? its just a picture full of coloured dots with circles round them:confused:
 
krisab said:
but i did! but i dont remember studying space much at school. especially about galaxies and stars, i remember mainly studying about planets :)
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Perhaps your teachers couldn't fathom the vastness of Space :D

Or perhaps you're so old that Space was little known back then ¬_¬
 
*yawn* Ok I realise what you mean now, our star is called the Sun, I was automatically referring to all Stars as "Sun" when in fact other stars have their own designation.

Fine, simple mistake to not click on to :p

Potato/Potato etc.
 
Wowza.

Just a thought: as well as the light travelling back to our little telescopes it has also been going the other way (each and every)..so, where does that light end up if those objects were formed at the BEGINNING OF TIME?!
 
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