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PoindexterOglethorpe

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10. Because it is expanding pretty much at the speed of light,
Thu Mar 24, 2022, 08:19 PM
Mar 2022

and in 14 billion years it's been able to expand that far.

A couple of other things worth knowing: Already the Universe is so large that already more than 90% of galaxies are so far away we cannot possibly visit them. https://bigthink.com/starts-with-a-bang/universes-galaxies-unreachable/

Also, the expansion of the Universe is such that at some point every galaxy outside our local cluster will be so far away that the light from them will not reach us. Eventually, every galaxy in our local cluster will merge. At that point, far future astronomers will have no way of knowing how old the Universe is, or how large it is. At least right now we can determine both of those. Lucky us.

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