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340 "Merry Kovid Kwanzaa, Madden the Death Merchant, the Flatbush Remonstrance"

The Fifth Column

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The Hubble Telescope Is Going to Allow Us to See Even Further

This is being sent to a distance that we've never sent a telescope. We know that light being omitted from distant galaxies travels to us, and it takes a long time to get here. When we use the telescope to take images, we are effectively looking back in time. This will look even further back in perhaps to the limits of what can possibly be perceived in terms of light that is traveling from the observational horizon. Because the galaxy, the universe, is expanding, not the galaxy, but the universe.

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