Friday, September 7, 2007

Apod Entry 1.2

The Apod picture for this week was the Time Tunnel taken on September 6. Johannes Schedler's, an amateur astronomy in Germany, took the photo which is a project of his to look at a quasar, which are objects that radiate more energy than a thousand plus galaxies. This particular quasar is around 12.7 billion light-years away. This quasar is supposedly known as the farthest object in space known to astronomers. The photo contains numerous galaxies surrounding the quasar. The quasar's appearance has not changed over the span of 12.7 billion years ago when it's light first reached the Earth.

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