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What is just beyond that farthest galaxy in Hubbles deep field?


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Ok, so we can see roughly 13.6 billion years into the past, to very young galaxies. Then is that just the limit of our seeing? or is that the limit of our universe., I mean,

If the telescope was powerful enough then is there a possibility that our universe is 15, 20, 30 billion years old? (but that couldnt be because the galaxies are young)

Or would we end up looking at the back of our head.....?

What is just beyond that farthest galaxy in Hubbles deep field???

Can we see 13.6 billion years in ALL directions? And would that make our universe over 27 billion ly across?

Some help with these (basic to some) tricky ideas would be very welcome

Andy

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If the telescope was powerful enough then is there a possibility that our universe is 15, 20, 30 billion years old? (but that couldnt be because the galaxies are young)

Or would we end up looking at the back of our head.....?

Could be much older i guess, who says that stars lit up and galaxies formed straight away, maybe it was just a big cloud of dark gas for billions of years... Or maybe past that point the universe is expanding faster than the speed of light, if that's the case then we'l never see it.

Can we see 13.6 billion years in ALL directions? And would that make our universe over 27 billion ly across?

At least. There's no saying that we're smack bang in the middle, infact, the chance that we are is very slim.

What is just beyond that farthest galaxy in Hubbles deep field???

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Ok, so we can see roughly 13.6 billion years into the past, to very young galaxies. Then is that just the limit of our seeing? or is that the limit of our universe., I mean,

If the telescope was powerful enough then is there a possibility that our universe is 15, 20, 30 billion years old? (but that couldnt be because the galaxies are young)

Or would we end up looking at the back of our head.....?

What is just beyond that farthest galaxy in Hubbles deep field???

Can we see 13.6 billion years in ALL directions? And would that make our universe over 27 billion ly across?

Some help with these (basic to some) tricky ideas would be very welcome

Andy

We are limited visibly by the Light Horizon

Observable universe - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

and secondly the earliest photons we will ever be able to detect will be the CMBR

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