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erica [24]
3 years ago
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Astronomers can now report that active star formation was going on at a time when the universe was only 20% as old as it is toda

y. When astronomers make such a statement, how can they know what was happening inside galaxies way back then
Physics
1 answer:
disa [49]3 years ago
8 0

Answer:

First, as you may know, the light travels at a given velocity.

In vaccum, this velocity is c = 3x10^8 m/s.

And we know that:

distance = velocity*time

Now, if some object (like a star ) is really far away, the light that comes from that star may take years to reach the Earth.

This means that the images that the astronomers see today, actually happened years and years ago (So the night sky is like a picture of the "past" of the universe)

Also, for example, if an astronomer sees some particular thing, he can apply a model (a "simplification" of some phenomena that is used to simplify it an explain it) and with the model, the scientist can infer the information of the given thing some time before it was seen.

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