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It is interesting to think about what could be from a galaxy that was formed ~500 million years before ours. If life had formed in that galaxy, if somehow it h
by nerdjon 2y ago
It is interesting to think about what could be from a galaxy that was formed ~500 million years before ours.
If life had formed in that galaxy, if somehow it had followed a similar pattern we did (which is doubtful, but just a thought experiment for simplicity). It would be very interesting to see a glimps of where life could be with an "extra" 500 million years. Even just a few million considering homosapiens did not appear until ~300,000 years ago.
It is almost sad in a way that we now know this galaxy exists, but we will always be looking at it 13+ billion years away and will never know what it is now. Can never really compare what that 500 million year head start got it (assuming it still exists).
- ajross 2y agoJust to rub it in, it's worse than that: it's always flying away from us, and it looks currently like that rate is accelerating. We don't even get to see this galaxy evolve, as we watch it will eventually appear to freeze in time from our perspective as it dims and red-shifts into the background radiation.