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undersuit 8 months ago | parent | context | favorite | on: A 1.3B-light-year-across ring of galaxies has conf...

Yes, we have direct observations. /s

The light we are viewing now was emitted billions of years ago, we don't know what it looks like today.

profsummergig 8 months ago | [–]

Something so key to the news, and yet not mentioned in this article.

The ring we see is how it looked 9 billion years ago. The universe is 14 billion years old. So, when the universe was still a baby.

markus_zhang 8 months ago | [–]

Sorry I meant to say...eh...maybe something from a few decades ago so to capture tiny changes.

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