Re: Most Distant Galaxy - What's wrong with this statement?

Posted by Roger Critchlow-2 on Oct 25, 2013; 3:20am
URL: http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/Most-Distant-Galaxy-What-s-wrong-with-this-statement-tp7584094p7584103.html

Where is "the outer edge of the Universe" and what sort of observation would locate something there?  All that the original report in Nature established was redshift (7.51), age (700 Myr after the Big Bang), and a surprising rate of star formation (330 solar masses / year).

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> > >  From the BBC at http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-24637890
> > > (today)
> > >
> > > /Because it takes light so long to travel from the outer edge of the
> > > Universe to us, the galaxy appears as it was 13.1 billion years ago (its
> > > distance from Earth of 30 billion light-years is because the Universe is
> > > expanding)./

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