The Background of the Galaxies

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Jul 1936

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Nature, Volume 138, Issue 3479, pp. 38 (1936).

Physics

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IN NATURE of May 30, M. Leontovski1 shows that ``To a most sensitive eye, the background of the galaxies would appear as a dark red.'' Since the irresolvable background consists of nebulæ receding with nearly the speed of light, the age of these nebulæ, as observed, reckoned in our own time-scale, must be approximately one half the present age of our own surroundings; that is, if t is the conventional value of the age of the universe, ½t is the age of the observed background2. Combining these results, we see that the background realizes the poet's dream of ``A rose-red city, half as old as time.''3

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