Comments on: The Youngest Distance Galaxy https://briankoberlein.com/2015/08/19/the-youngest-distance-galaxy/ Brian Koberlein Fri, 22 Feb 2019 18:22:15 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.1 By: Brian Koberlein https://briankoberlein.com/2015/08/19/the-youngest-distance-galaxy/#comment-4458 Tue, 16 Aug 2016 17:23:52 +0000 https://briankoberlein.com/?p=5122#comment-4458 It’s because what we are seeing is a galaxy when is was young. Since light takes time to travel, the most distant galaxies we observe are also from a time when the Universe was very young.

]]> By: Daniel https://briankoberlein.com/2015/08/19/the-youngest-distance-galaxy/#comment-4457 Tue, 16 Aug 2016 17:14:38 +0000 https://briankoberlein.com/?p=5122#comment-4457 Why is this described as the “youngest” known galaxy? Young in common parlance means more recently born. So wouldn’t in fact be the oldest galaxy?

]]> By: Karanja Kibe Karanja https://briankoberlein.com/2015/08/19/the-youngest-distance-galaxy/#comment-3375 Wed, 16 Dec 2015 04:58:59 +0000 https://briankoberlein.com/?p=5122#comment-3375 How do you maesure the speed of galaxy expantion?

]]> By: Jpatrick https://briankoberlein.com/2015/08/19/the-youngest-distance-galaxy/#comment-2917 Thu, 20 Aug 2015 01:38:33 +0000 https://briankoberlein.com/?p=5122#comment-2917 It is claimed that in 2012 Hubble found a galaxy with redshift z = 11.9. Was this later retracted?

https://www.spacetelescope.org/news/heic1219/

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