Starship Asterisk*

OK. Try this on for size. No pun intended. Makes much more sense to me now (if this stuff ever makes "sense").

http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/m ... 40524.html

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...