Monday, January 11, 2010

Update on the first article

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Before I proceed with our lessons directly bearing on Systems Engineering, I would like to present the latest information on NASA’s search for data about the origin and extent of the Universe. From the CNN website we have:

Hubble peers back 13.2 billion years, finds 'primordial' galaxies

Members of the American Astronomical Society are meeting this week in Washington to review the data and images retrieved by Hubble's new infrared Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3), which was installed in May, institute spokesman Ray Villard told CNN. Some of the images were shared with the public in September.

The camera, Villard said, is far superior to the previous camera, which could only see galaxies about 900 million years after the Big Bang -- the cosmic explosion that is theorized to mark the origin of the universe.
But it is reaching its limits, he said. A more powerful instrument, the James Webb Space Telescope, is planned for launch in 2014. It will allow astronomers to study the detailed nature of early galaxies and discover many more even farther away.


http://edition.cnn.com/2010/TECH/space/01/05/hubble.new.galaxies/index.html; January 6, 2010


This confirms the idea that if man is able to build better instruments, he would extend the limits of the Universe.