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Oxygen found in most distant known galaxy.

Is this a surprise? Oxygen is one of the basic elements, no?

I could be wrong, but the most distance galaxies we see are images of when the universe was very young, very few elements heavier than hydrogen and helium. Oxygen really only forms from stars dying which takes time, so seeing it in some abundance in early universe is interesting.
 
I could be wrong, but the most distance galaxies we see are images of when the universe was very young, very few elements heavier than hydrogen and helium. Oxygen really only forms from stars dying which takes time, so seeing it in some abundance in early universe is interesting.

Here on earth, oxygen was created by plant-like microorganisms.
 
Unless plants have discovered how to master nuclear fusion, the oxygen was created in a star. The plants took a molecule, like CO2 and H20, with oxygen as a part of it and farted out O2.

It's called "photosynthesis"... perhaps you should look it up.

 
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One of the mega geek physicists says the time it takes to get there compresses as you get close to the speed of light so in theory you could get there in minutes. It would be millions of years later when you got back to earth to tell everybody what you saw.
 
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