• Question: Where is the furthest place we can see in space

    Asked by anon-244324 to Ondrej, Jordan, Eleanor, Ed, Christine, Alice on 19 Mar 2020.
    • Photo: Jordan McElwee

      Jordan McElwee answered on 19 Mar 2020:

      The furthest place we can see is the edge of the observable universe, which is about 46 billion light-years away. The really interesting thing about this is that because the light has taken so much time to reach us, we are actually looking into the past! The objects that we see from this light probably don’t exist any more because it was such a long time ago. Pretty awesome!

    • Photo: Eleanor Jones

      Eleanor Jones answered on 19 Mar 2020:

      This always amazes me, even though I have heard it so many times. I still think the concept that we are actually seeing things that might not even exist now because the light has taken so long to travel to us is crazy!

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