what is the furthest distance we can see into the universe
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The Universe Everything you see, from the brightest star to the faintest galaxy, is part of the same universe. We can see things in the universe over fifteen billion light years away. A light-year is the distance light travels in one year - over 9.4 trillion (9,400,000,000,000) kilometers! That means we can see things that are over 142,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 kilometers away. The universe is a big place! Exercise 1.
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The Farthest Visible Reaches of Space Current observations suggest that the Universe is about 13.7 billion years old. We know that light takes time to travel, so that if we observe an object that is 13 billion light years away, then that light has been traveling towards us for 13 billion years.
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How Far Can the Human Eye See? The Earth's surface curves out of sight at a distance of 3.1 miles, or 5 kilometers. But our visual acuity extends far beyond the horizon. If Earth were flat, or if you were standing atop a mountain surveying a larger-than-usual patch of the planet, you could perceive bright lights hundreds of miles distant. On a dark night, you could even see a candle flame flickering up to 30 mi. (48 km) away.
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Gliese 581c In astronomical terms, the Gliese 581 system is relatively close to Earth, at 20.3 light years (192 trillion km or 119 trillion miles) in the direction of the constellation of Libra. This distance, along with the declination and right ascension coordinates, give its exact location in our galaxy. It is identified as Gliese 581 by its number in the Gliese Catalogue of Nearby Stars; it is the 89th closest known star system to the Sun.
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- With the unaided eye, you can see 2.8 million light-years to the Andromeda Galaxy. Even a very small telescope can show you an object called 3C273, a quasar in Virgo that is 3 billion light-years distant. But most objects that are interesting to look at aren't that far away.
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- The stars are light years away and are so far away they fade. The next closest star Proxima Centauri is so far it's light takes 4.22 years to reach Earth.
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- › Full image and caption. Two teams of astronomers have discovered the largest and farthest reservoir of water ever detected in the universe. The water, equivalent to 140 trillion times all the water in the world's ocean, surrounds a huge, feeding black hole, called a quasar, more than 12 billion light-years away.
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Interstellar travel Another way of understanding the vastness of interstellar distances is by scaling: one of the closest stars to the Sun, Alpha Centauri A (a Sun-like star), can be pictured by scaling down the Earth–Sun distance to one meter (~3.3 ft). On this scale, the distance to Alpha Centauri A would be 271 kilometers (169 miles).
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The Cosmic Distance Scale By Maggie Masetti. This feature will give an impression of how immense our Universe is by employing a method used many times in Power of 10 films-that is, starting with an image of the Earth and then zooming out towards the furthest visible reaches of our Universe.
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Astronomy Study Guide 3 Now that you know what the distance is that light travels in one year you can also know the distance between objects in the universe. The closest star to us is about four light years away. This means that it is 23,462,784,000,000 miles away.
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Galaxy Previously, as of July 2015, EGSY8p7 was the most distant known galaxy, estimated to have a light travel distance of 13.2 billion light-years away. Approximately 170 billion (1.7 × 1011) to 200 billion (2.0 × 1011), or, more recently, at least 2 trillion galaxies exist in the observable universe. Most of the galaxies are 1,000 to 100,000 parsecs in diameter and usually separated by distances on the order of millions of parsecs (or megaparsecs). The space between galaxies is filled with a tenuous gas having an average density of less than one atom per cubic meter.
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The observable Universe and beyond The observable Universe and beyond. Read more about sharing. The further we look into space, the further back in time we go and the last thing we see is left-overs from the Big Bang. This pattern in the sky could give us clues to the Universe next door. The Universe that we can observe is fantastically large.
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The Limit Of What Hubble Can See The most powerful telescope in history will never see the farthest galaxy. “No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other’s worth.” -Robert Southey. With all that the Hubble Space Telescope has done — including staring at a blank patch of sky for weeks worth of time — you might think there’s no limit to how far it can see.
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- Astronomers have found what appears to be the farthest known galaxy in the universe. The galaxy MACS0647-JD is 13.3 billion light-years from Earth and was born 420 million years after the Big Bang. Astronomers have found what appears to be the farthest known galaxy in the universe.
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Galaxy The Milky Way's central black hole, known as Sagittarius A*, has a mass four million times greater than the Sun. As of March 2016, GN-z11 is the oldest and most distant observed galaxy with a comoving distance of 32 billion light-years from Earth, and observed as it existed just 400 million years after the Big Bang.
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Q: How far away is the edge of the universe? So if you define the size of the visible universe as the present physical distance (in terms of the “co-moving coordinates” which are stationary with respect to the cosmic microwave background) to the farthest things we can see, then the edge of the visible universe is 45 billion light years away (give or take).
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Andromeda Galaxy Andromeda galaxy. Andromeda galaxy. At a distance of about 2.5 million light years, the Andromeda galaxy (also known as NGC 224 and M31) is the nearest galaxy to the Earth apart from smaller companion galaxies such as the Magellanic Clouds. Like the Milky Way, Andromeda is a spiral galaxy.
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- Bottom line: At 2.3 million light-years, the Great Andromeda galaxy (Messier 31) rates as one of the most distant objects you can see with the unaided eye. It is also the closest and brightest spiral galaxy to our Milky Way galaxy.
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How far away are the stars and galaxies? How are these distances calculated? Many of us, while still in grade school, learned about the staggering distances to planets, stars and galaxies. The sun is approximately 150 million km or 93 million miles away, a distance that is known as the astronomical unit (AU). Venus, our closest neighbor, is 0.72 AU from the sun, while Mars is 1.52 AU from the sun.
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- Far point- it is the range till where our eyes can see and in a normal human being it is infinity. Near point- it is the nearest possible distance from our eye till which we …can see an object clearly. it is 25 cm in human. Harry Ellis.
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A Video Map of Motions in the Nearby Universe Map showing all galaxies in the local universe color-coded by their distance to us: blue galaxies are the closest, and red are farther, up to 300 million light-years away. RGB JPEG (2.2 MB) This map shows the currents of galaxies in the universe. The galaxies (white spheres) are like dead branches in a sea.
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How Many Light Years Away Is the Farthest Star? The most distant star ever observed is any contained in Galaxy MACS0647-JD, located 13.3 billion light years from earth. This galaxy is located at such a great distance that even with the aid of...
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How can it be understood that the universe is 93 billion light years across and yet only 13.8 billion years old? The electromagnetic spectrum is the term used by scientists to describe the entire range of light that exists. From radio waves to gamma rays, most of the light in the universe is, in fact, invisible to us! Light is a wave of alternating electric and magnetic fields. The propagation of light isn’t much different than waves crossing an ocean.
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Galaxies in the Universe: How Many are There? Astronomers can use the Hubble Space Telescope to view galaxies near the edge of the observable universe (the region of space from which light has had a chance to reach us within the last 13.77 billion years).
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- At a distance of 139 AU (2.08×1010 km) from the Sun as of July 1, 2017,[3] it is the farthest spacecraft from Earth as well as the farthest man-made object. It is also the most distant object in the solar system whose location is known, even farther than Eris (96 AU) and V774104 (~103 AU).