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Agreed, there are inconsistencies in the BB theory. But for every one inconsistencies in the BB theory there no less than ten inconsistencies for any of the steady state theories.
It is more practical to "fix" the BBT - the steady state theories cannot be fixed.

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SCIENTISTS examining the oldest light in the universe say they have found evidence that matter expanded at an almost inconceivable rate after the big bang, creating conditions that led to the formation of the first stars.

Light from the big bang's afterglow shows that the universe grew from the size of a marble to an astronomical size in just a trillionth of a second after its birth 13.7 billion years ago, researchers from Johns Hopkins and Princeton universities say.


It is statements like the one above, that I think NASA is in La La land.
They make their model work by making fantasy statements that are not real or practical.

...by making fantasy statements that are not real or practical. ...

Hubble photographed the Spiderweb Galaxy [image], officially MRC 1138-262. It is 10.6 billion light-years away. The light we see from it emanated when the universe was only a couple billion years old.

SCIENTISTS examining the oldest light in the universe say they have found evidence that matter expanded at an almost inconceivable rate after the big bang, creating conditions that led to the formation of the first stars.

Light from the big bang's afterglow shows that the universe grew from the size of a marble to an astronomical size in just a trillionth of a second after its birth 13.7 billion years ago, researchers from Johns Hopkins and Princeton universities say.

harry wrote:What hog wash

It does not reveal the early universe. It makes an assumption that the Big Bang is correct and adds an opinion without evidence, particulary when the observation image is present.

It does not reveal the early universe. It makes an assumption that the Big Bang is correct and adds an opinion without evidence, particulary when the observation image is present.

If you look at the image you see all galaxies in deep field. Many different forms young and old and different shapes and sizes.

Hubble's Deepest View Ever of the Universe Unveils Earliest Galaxies

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Astronomers at the Space Telescope Science Institute today unveiled the deepest portrait of the visible universe ever achieved by humankind. Called the Hubble Ultra Deep Field (HUDF), the million-second-long exposure reveals the first galaxies to emerge from the so-called "dark ages," the time shortly after the big bang when the first stars reheated the cold, dark universe. The new image should offer new insights into what types of objects reheated the universe long ago.

astro_uk wrote:Deep in astronomy terms usually just means deep as in exposure time. So a deep exposure is one with a lot of exposure time. It just means you can see fainter objects.

Adding images together like this is common in astronomical imaging. If you take, for example, 10 images with exposure times of 10 seconds each and then add them all together, it produces one image equal to an exposure time of 100 seconds.
The advantage of doing it this way has to do with the way images are produced by a CCD detector. CCD's produce more noise or 'grain' to an image if you just let them sit there collecting light. Less grainy images are obtained if you just add a bunch of shorter exposures together. With each image added, the light from the galaxies increases by the amount that the image was exposed, but the graininess increases by a lesser amount (the square root of the number of images for those technically motivated).
The result is an image that is sharper and has more detail.

Called Hubble Ultra Deep Field (HUDF), the million-second-long exposure...This Historic new view is actually two separate images taken by Hubble's Advance Camera for Surveys (ACS) and the Near Infrared Camera and Multi-object Sectrometer (NICMOS).

Adrift 1,500 light-years away in one of the night sky's most recognizable constellations, the glowing Orion Nebula and the dark Horsehead Nebula are contrasting cosmic vistas

One of the most obvious features people see in Orion is the three stars that make up what most people consider the belt of the giant. Mintaka , the westernmost star in the belt, comes from the Arabic word for belt. Alnilam, the center star in the belt, means "a belt of pearls". And Alnitak, the eastern-most star, means the girdle. All three are at the same distance from us and, with Rigel, Saiph, and Meissa, probably formed at about the same time some ten million years ago from the molecular clouds astronomers have found in Orion.