A look at the Universe at 11 Billion years B.C.
March 20th 2011 05:59
Category: Stars
My rendition of what the night sky might look like on a planet with a dense starfield
Just imagine for a moment if we were placed in young galaxy our view of the night sky would be vastly different.
If we take a step backwards to a time period of 11 billion years the universe would only be 3 billion years old. Stars would speeding by at breakneck speeds the amount of actual stars we could see around us would truly staggering.
The amount of light produced just by the starlight in the night sky would be bright enough to see your way around at night.
A team of astronomers used the Gemini South telescope in Chile to observe a distant galaxy on the very edge of the universe some 11 billion years from us. The images taken reveal a relatively young universe what we are no seeing is what looked like back then.
The galaxy compared to others is small at just 5,000 light years wide our galaxy the Milky Way galaxy is approximately 100000 light years in diameter.
The stars were closer together packed in a dense galaxy, the stars themselves would move around the galaxy at twice the speed of our Sun.
Although the stars would be packed like sardines the galaxy they occupied was small. It somewhat amazing that we can see how young stars behaved back then as they moved as if they were in a giant galaxy.
CURRENT MOON
What we are now seeing is what occurred 11 billion years ago , if we could forward in time the scene would be mach different the stars would have moved further away from each other the galaxy may have merged with another. I guess it pays to take a look back one in a while ,as it reminds us of how much we have moved forwarded.
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