OK. Try this on for size. No pun intended. Makes much more sense to me now (if this stuff ever makes "sense").
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- Wed Oct 28, 2009 10:32 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: JKCS041: Farthest Galaxy Cluster Yet Measured (2009 Oct 28)
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- Wed Oct 28, 2009 8:28 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: JKCS041: Farthest Galaxy Cluster Yet Measured (2009 Oct 28)
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Re: JKCS041: Farthest Galaxy Cluster Yet Measured (2009 Oct
I have always wondered why these terrifically distant objects aren't really much farther away at the present. If this cluster is 9 billion LY away, what has it been doing in the 9 billion years since the light left? Assuming (not a good assumption, likely) that it's been receding at a similar pace f...