Today a lot of stuff happened. Minecraft was attacked, Sonic Fan Remix was released in a trial version and I found out that Mario originally was supposed to carry a gun... But you guys already know about that, right? So why bother telling you about that?
Well, What I really wanna tell you guys is, that today, - I realized that we’ve actually seen the edge of the universe. This might sound dumb, silly or whatever, but I read that the galaxy UDFy-38135539, which was discovered last year, now has been estimated to being 13.1 billion light-years away – this makes it one of the first galaxies to form after the Big Bang.
It all started when the Hubble Telescope took the image called; ”Ultra Deep Field” and as far as I remember, the telescope looked at the same point in the sky for, well – a long time and discovered more than 10.000 galaxies.
What they did, was to locate the one, which shined brightest red (since that indicate it’s age), and then observed it several more times, to finally come up with the result: That the galaxy was formed during the Epoch of reionization! ... What?!
- Yeah, let me explain
Reionization was a time, when radiation from the first newborn stars formed a fog consisting of hydrogen atoms, which was split into protons and electrons covering the entire universe.
- Still confused?
Hydrogen absorbs light, so without the early stars, we wouldn’t even be able to see, these early galaxies.
What all of this means is that the red galaxy was formed, only 600 million years after the birth of the universe itself. The second most-distant object ever to have been observed was 30 million light years closer than this newfound galaxy. – So what you look at, in the picture above... Is somewhat, the birth of galaxies.
By the way... does that Sonic Fan Remix – Rule or what!!?? ... WOW! (I’m not even being sarcastic)
I Love you guys, take care and take a look at the sky (insert: Star Wars theme and a man saying ”Galaxy Far, Far” in an endless loop)
