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by DistantViewer
Wed Apr 29, 2009 9:50 pm
Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
Topic: APOD: GRB 090423: The Farthest Explosion Yet (2009 Apr 29)
Replies: 78
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Just how small.... (GRB 090423: 2009 April 29)

OK, well, I guess it takes quite the education and the understanding into the calculations in determining all these distances. I understand your reply, and realized it did not explode when the universe was created, but there remains a nagging feeling that it doesn't all equate. O well, simple minds ...
by DistantViewer
Wed Apr 29, 2009 1:52 pm
Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
Topic: APOD: GRB 090423: The Farthest Explosion Yet (2009 Apr 29)
Replies: 78
Views: 9630

APOD April 29, 2009 - Timeline

I am no genius, so excuse me if I have missed the obvious. I have my doubts regarding all astronomical caluclations anyway. So, this one is really confusing me. I do not understand the time given for the "explosion". If it was 630 million years after the "big bang", then how coul...