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atomic7732
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« on: October 22, 2010, 03:38:45 PM »
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UDFy-38135539
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« Reply #1 on: October 22, 2010, 04:48:40 PM »
"UDFy-38135539 (also known as "HUDF.YD3") is the Hubble Ultra Deep Field (UDF) classification for a galaxy which (as of October 2010) has been calculated to have a light travel time of 13 billion years[1] with a present distance of around 30 billion light-years, thus making the galaxy the most distant object in the universe known to have existed and which has been observed from Earth."

Awesome.
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« Reply #2 on: October 23, 2010, 09:34:30 AM »
wow. That's crazy far.
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« Reply #3 on: October 23, 2010, 09:35:35 AM »
Quote from: Chaotic Cow on October 23, 2010, 09:34:30 AM
wow. That's crazy far.
Indeed.
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« Reply #4 on: November 27, 2010, 01:42:31 PM »
A redshift of 8.6? Holy crap. I rate this galaxy's distance as 8.6 out of 10. Tongue
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« Reply #5 on: May 02, 2011, 07:02:47 PM »
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IC_1101

check out IC 1101, largest known galaxy in terms of breadth.

its diameter is 5.5 MLY, as opposed to the milky ways 100 KLY
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« Reply #6 on: May 03, 2011, 01:29:53 PM »
Quote from: secretempire1 on May 02, 2011, 07:02:47 PM
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IC_1101

check out IC 1101, largest known galaxy in terms of breadth.

its diameter is 5.5 MLY, as opposed to the milky ways 100 KLY


Holy mackerel...

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The galaxy has a diameter of approximately 5.5 million light years, which makes it currently (as of 2010) the largest known galaxy in terms of breadth.[2] It is the central galaxy of a massive cluster containing a mass (mostly dark matter) of roughly 100 trillion Suns.[3][4] Being more than 50 times the size of the Milky Way and 2000 times as massive, if it was in place of our galaxy, it would swallow up the Large Magellanic Cloud, Small Magellanic Cloud, Andromeda Galaxy, and Triangulum Galaxy. IC 1101 owes its size to many collisions of much smaller galaxies about the size of the Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies.


That thing is almost as big as the entire local group, and its mass is comparable to the Virgo Cluster.
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« Reply #7 on: May 03, 2011, 01:50:50 PM »
Most of the old members here know IC 1101, it's even in the galaxy selection GUI in Universe Sandbox 2. Smiley
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« Reply #8 on: June 13, 2011, 05:29:44 AM »
That's pretty cool.
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« Reply #9 on: June 13, 2011, 06:50:50 AM »
Quote from: Naru523 on May 03, 2011, 01:50:50 PM
Most of the old members here know IC 1101, it's even in the galaxy selection GUI in Universe Sandbox 2. Smiley

yay for repetetive information
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