While time travel is seemingly impossible, we can actually look back in time with our telescopes to learn about the conditions of our universe in times past.


The Spitzer Space Telescope has found some very dim and distant galaxies located at the edge of our universe that have never been seen before.
Approximately 12.5 billion light-years away from Earth, we’re seeing these galaxies as when our universe was just one billion years old.
With Spitzer's infrared capability, astronomers have been able to take infrared portraits and even "weigh" many of these early galaxies.
"Understanding the mass and chemical makeup of the universe's first galaxies and then taking snapshots of galaxies at different ages, gives us a better idea of how gas, dust and metals– the material that went into making our Sun, solar system, and Earth –has changed throughout the Universe's history," said Spitzer scientist Dr. Ranga Ram Chary.
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The images coming down from the STS-123 mission have been nothing short of spectacular.
https://www.universetoday.com/2008/03/25/
award-winning-images-from-the-sts-123-gallery/#more-13332

The pictures have included amazing EVA shots, images of the astronauts hard at work (and having fun, too) and stunning photos of the ever-growing International Space Station.
Here are just a few of the latest images from the mission, and they're all so great, I've decided to give each one an award. This one gets the award for Best Group Photo Ever of the Shuttle, ISS and Earth. On Monday, shuttle Endeavour undocked from the ISS, and after the obligatory fly-around, the astronauts snapped this picture as the shuttle separated from the station. In my mind, this is one of the most amazing images from space ever. And there's more….WOW!!




If you'd like to see the latest from Space,

Or you can see it from this link (universetoday.com)