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In reply to the discussion: New galaxy 'most distant' yet discovered [View all]Posteritatis
(18,807 posts)25. No, that's right. The observable universe is actually about 93 billion lightyears in diameter. (nt)
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Even with the good mileage on my car i'd have to fill up a couple of times to get there! LOL n/t
RKP5637
Oct 2013
#51
I was (un)fortuntate enough to be stuck in the whirlpool at the gym with some of these ...
Myrina
Oct 2013
#7
(I was wrong) If 30 billion light years is correct, then the record was more than doubled.
DisgustipatedinCA
Oct 2013
#9
Very good post. In a way, we are really lucky to even see anything outside the Milky Way.
thereismore
Oct 2013
#28
13.7bn years old and 93bn lightyears across. Cosmological expansion gets counterintuitive. (nt)
Posteritatis
Oct 2013
#26
space expands faster than light, only light and objects are limited to the light speed limit
Bacchus4.0
Oct 2013
#16
So if something could hookup to the expanding galaxy it could go faster than the speed of light?
Uncle Joe
Oct 2013
#37
In theory at some point in the future could it be possible to create a photon double bubble
Uncle Joe
Oct 2013
#44
That is a fascinating article, the key seems to be finding or creating the necessary exotic matter.
Uncle Joe
Oct 2013
#55
No, that's right. The observable universe is actually about 93 billion lightyears in diameter. (nt)
Posteritatis
Oct 2013
#25
article says the light took 13.1B years to arrive, but space itself has inflated
MisterP
Oct 2013
#13
I remember Raven Rock and other "undisclosed" locations, I remember that we have a shadow gov. too
bobthedrummer
Oct 2013
#53
If space expands faster than the speed of light, the light from that galaxy can never reach us.
AdHocSolver
Oct 2013
#39
I would guess that it used to be much closer. That's the light we can see, not the
grahamhgreen
Oct 2013
#41
Expansion is kind of an alien concept for most and not crystal clear for anyone, as far as I can see
TheKentuckian
Oct 2013
#45