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Return to E-mail Discussion page (From msn.com headlines)The most distant quasar to be ever observed with a red shift of 5.8! Last week, a team of astronomers led by Marc Davis, the professor of astronomy at the University of California at Berkeley, obtained spectra of the object at the Keck II Telescope in Hawaii and confirmed that it is a distant quasar. With a redshift of 5.8, the light we see was emitted about a billion years after the birth of the universe, when it was 6.8 times smaller than it is today, Davis said. A redshift of 5.8 means the wavelength of light was shifted by 580 percent. "It's astounding," Davis said. "This is very close to the limit we should be able to see in the universe." http://www.msnbc.com/news/394725.asp?bt=pu&btu= http://www.msnbc.com/m/olk2k/msnbc_o_install.asp I don't know if this link will work, but if you go to www.msn.com, it is in the news section (Space news). How cool! devi |
