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Cosmic dawn 22:27 - Jun 24 with 1565 viewsearlsgreenblue

Blimey they’ve narrowed it down……….the first stars formed between 250 million & 350 million years ago, good job nobody blinked!
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(No subject) (n/t) on 22:58 - Jun 24 with 1501 viewslightuser

lol. Looks like I got hit by the update.

Anyway, in your effort to make a joke, you have got this mixed up.

The first stars have been observed to have been born about 250-350 hundred million years AFTER the Big Bang (the Big Bang was about 14 billion years ago).

So in geologic time, it's very quick.

It's also, strangely enough, the same sort of time period that it is thought to have been when life first appeared on the Earth (the Earth is about 4 billion years old).
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Cosmic dawn on 23:16 - Jun 24 with 1481 viewsStokieBlue

Just a small point of order, they formed between 250m and 350m after the big bang.

Given they are looking back 13.8bn years that's quite a good range.

SB
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Cosmic dawn on 23:30 - Jun 24 with 1445 viewsfactual_blue

Cosmic dawn on 23:16 - Jun 24 by StokieBlue

Just a small point of order, they formed between 250m and 350m after the big bang.

Given they are looking back 13.8bn years that's quite a good range.

SB


I think you'll find Earth was on 23 October 4004 BCE.

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Cosmic dawn on 23:32 - Jun 24 with 1452 viewsStokieBlue

Cosmic dawn on 23:30 - Jun 24 by factual_blue

I think you'll find Earth was on 23 October 4004 BCE.


Only if you believe is sky fairies.

And don't believe in dinosaurs.

SB
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Cosmic dawn on 23:33 - Jun 24 with 1435 viewsfactual_blue

Cosmic dawn on 23:32 - Jun 24 by StokieBlue

Only if you believe is sky fairies.

And don't believe in dinosaurs.

SB


Well, if it's good enough for James Ussher, it's good enough for me.

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Cosmic dawn on 23:34 - Jun 24 with 1444 viewsWeWereZombies

Cosmic dawn on 23:30 - Jun 24 by factual_blue

I think you'll find Earth was on 23 October 4004 BCE.


I guess you were one of the first ones in...

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Cosmic dawn on 23:38 - Jun 24 with 1435 viewslightuser

Cosmic dawn on 23:16 - Jun 24 by StokieBlue

Just a small point of order, they formed between 250m and 350m after the big bang.

Given they are looking back 13.8bn years that's quite a good range.

SB


Damn that update. Missed out on an upvote. 😁

But I have gone to the effort of adding some extra info.👍😉
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Cosmic dawn on 23:42 - Jun 24 with 1422 viewsBlueBadger

Cosmic dawn on 23:32 - Jun 24 by StokieBlue

Only if you believe is sky fairies.

And don't believe in dinosaurs.

SB


Be fair here, Facters was an eye witness.

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Cosmic dawn on 08:35 - Jun 25 with 1273 viewsCheltenham_Blue

Cosmic dawn on 23:30 - Jun 24 by factual_blue

I think you'll find Earth was on 23 October 4004 BCE.


24th of October idiot.
4004 BCE was a leap year.

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Cosmic dawn on 00:32 - Jun 26 with 1184 viewsWeWereZombies

Cosmic dawn on 08:35 - Jun 25 by Cheltenham_Blue

24th of October idiot.
4004 BCE was a leap year.


It's not even that straight forward as Bishop Ussher used the Jewish Calendar:

'The Jewish calendar is based on the Metonic cycle of 19 years, of which 12 are common (non-leap) years of 12 months and 7 are leap years of 13 months.'

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hebrew_calendar#:~:text=The%20Jewish%20calendar%20

So it might not even have been תִּשְׁרִי

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Cosmic dawn on 05:23 - Jun 26 with 1136 viewsRyorry

Also, for those interested -


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Cosmic dawn on 13:04 - Jun 26 with 1053 viewsThe_Flashing_Smile

Cosmic dawn on 05:23 - Jun 26 by Ryorry

Also, for those interested -



Fascinating stuff, thanks Ry.

Trust the process. Trust Phil.

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Cosmic dawn on 13:29 - Jun 26 with 1026 viewslightuser

Cosmic dawn on 13:04 - Jun 26 by The_Flashing_Smile

Fascinating stuff, thanks Ry.


Yes, unfortunately another time bandit website added to my favourites.

Thanks Ryorry. 😢😉
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Cosmic dawn on 15:09 - Jun 26 with 990 viewsRyorry

Cosmic dawn on 13:29 - Jun 26 by lightuser

Yes, unfortunately another time bandit website added to my favourites.

Thanks Ryorry. 😢😉


He's absolutely excellent - I'm not usually into that stuff, but his photos are amazing & draw you in.

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Cosmic dawn on 16:31 - Jun 26 with 971 viewslightuser

Cosmic dawn on 15:09 - Jun 26 by Ryorry

He's absolutely excellent - I'm not usually into that stuff, but his photos are amazing & draw you in.


To be honest Ryorry, I don't look at the photo's much. Most of them are just equivalent to an "artists impression", that is, made to look pretty with false colours and all that for the various spectra to get a nice "photo".

Even the recent black hole image was an amalgum of teams putting together their best guess.

I prefer the raw science (actually the summaries because I'm too thick to understand the math). 😁

If you look at the pictures for something like plate tectonics, they look like sometihng drawn on a beer mat, or back of a fag packet. That'll do for me . lol
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