Hubble Reveals 13.2B-Year-Old Picture of the Universe
What if you could travel 13 billion years into the past?
It's a question that some of us may ask when seeing another breathtaking image of space, this time taken by NASA's Hubble telescope. Last week, we learned about images taken Fermilab's DEC reaching about 66 million light years into space. NASA published an eXtreme Deep Field, or XDF, photograph detailing a tiny portion of the sky, showing about 5,500 galaxies that appear via extreme exposure of 2 million seconds and via the combination of 2,000 individual images.
The XDF goes back 13.2 billion years in time, and close to the believed beginning of universe 13.7 billion years ago. The youngest galaxies in the picture are shown as they existed only 450 million years after the big bang. "The early universe was a time of dramatic birth for galaxies containing brilliant blue stars extraordinarily brighter than our sun. The light from those past events is just arriving at Earth now, and so the XDF is a time tunnel into the distant past."
The farthest galaxies shown in the images are 13.2 billion light years away, which translates to about 2.6 septillion miles.

On a serious note, I think the pictures are nothing short of amazing.
You should see the inside of a class room. The very moment the teacher opens his or her mouth to lecture half the class crashes then sleeps till about five minutes before the class is due to end.
Theists: 0
It's "dark" because it doesn't interact with other stuff (matter, light etc.) except through gravity. So "invisible matter" might have been a more intuitive name.
http://www.answersingenesis.org/articles/nab/does-starlight-prove
If your going to respond please read the article first.
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1: It is based only on general relativity. The inclusion of quantum mechanics solves many of the problems presented.
2: It uses God's all powerful-ness as an axiom. This can be proved false quite easily by simple logic. Can god make someone more powerful than himself?
3: the universe must either be infinite or curved back on itself in a hypersphere. Therefore, the earth can not be in the sort of gravity well described.
4: The third argument is a joke. It is just as meaningful to say that the bible is actually written in a different language that happens to use the same characters, or that the translator of a particular bible mistranslated someones age as it is to say it might use a different standard of time.
5: In the fourth argument, it is missing the fact that we know from the Doppler effect that the rate of the universes expansion is expanding. Therefore, the rate of expansion in the early universe must be less than it is now.
6: The biggest problem with the conclusion is that the heat transfer problem would only be a problem if we were looking at the edge of the universe (assuming that exists). These images are only from a point somewhat close to the edge of the observable universe, which fixes the problem.