David J. Williams » astrophysics http://autumnrain2110.com/blog Autumn Rain 2110 Wed, 05 May 2021 07:38:05 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.0.38 The most distant object you’ve ever seen http://autumnrain2110.com/blog/2009/04/30/the-most-distant-object-youve-ever-seen/ http://autumnrain2110.com/blog/2009/04/30/the-most-distant-object-youve-ever-seen/#comments Thu, 30 Apr 2009 14:44:37 +0000 http://autumnrain2110.com/blog/?p=1189 . . .has now been detected by astronomers: a gamma ray burst from a star that collapsed 95% of the age of the universe ago. . .almost 13.7 billion years. Nothing more distant has hiresever been spotted—nor has a higher redshift (8.2). This is the kind of thing that gives me a twinge of regret at confining my science fiction to the Earth-Moon system.  Sure, you can get up to a lot of fun within it, particularly if you leverage those libration points.  But there are times I miss the rest of the Universe. . .

“Chains of logic so far gone they’ve done the redshift.” –Stephan Lynx

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