RSS Feed
March 4th, 2015 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda  |
Excerpt from voicechronicle.com
Astronomers have discovered a dust-filled ancient galaxy from the
very early universe, which debunks earlier theories that earliest
galaxies had no dust but gas. Astronomers from the University of Copenhagen used the Very Large
Telescope’s X-shooter instrument along with the Atacama Large
Millimeter/submillimeter Array and discovered a galaxy, named Galaxy
A1689-zD1, which is an ancient galaxy and far from Earth.
The astronomers stated that the galaxy which
they were surprised to discover is far more evolved system than
expected. It had a fraction of dust similar to a very mature galaxy,
such as the Milky Way. Such dust is vital to life, because it helps form
planets, complex molecules and normal stars.
According to the astronomers A1689-zD1 is only observable by virtue
of its brightness being amplified more than nine times by a
gravitational lens in the form of the spectacular galaxy cluster.
Without the gravitational boost, the glow from this very faint galaxy
would have been too weak to detect.
The astronomers stated that they are viewing A1689-zD1 when the
Universe was only about 700 million years old, which is 5% of its
present age. According to them, it is a relatively modest system — much
less massive and luminous than many other objects that have been studied
before at this stage in the early universe and hence a more typical
example of a galaxy at that time.
A1689-zD1 is being observed as it was during the period of
reionization, when the earliest stars brought with them a cosmic dawn,
illuminating for the first time an immense and transparent universe and
ending the extended stagnation of the Dark Ages. Expected to look like a
newly formed system, the galaxy surprised the observers with its rich
chemical complexity and abundance of interstellar dust.
Dust plays an extremely important role in the universe – both in the formation of planets and new stars.
Darach Watson, Associate Professor at Dark Cosmology Centre,
University of Copenhagen, and the lead author of the study, said, “After
confirming the galaxy’s distance using the VLT we realized it had
previously been observed with ALMA. We didn’t expect to find much, but I
can tell you we were all quite excited when we realized that not only
had ALMA observed it, but that there was a clear detection. One of the
main goals of the ALMA Observatory was to find galaxies in the early
Universe from their cold gas and dust emissions — and here we had it!”
The researchers hope that future observations of a large number of
distant galaxies could help unravel how frequently such evolved galaxies
occur in this very early epoch of the history of the universe.
Source Article from http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/AscensionEarth2012/~3/yBib35WhTGw/astronomers-discover-ancient-dust.html
Views: 0
Posted in 
