Re: Hubble Telescope Captures Most Distant Star Situated 28 Billion Light-Years Away

"Michael F. Stemper" <[email protected]> Fri, 1 Apr 2022 15:01:26 -0500
Newsgroups alt.astronomy,alt.fan.heinlein,alt.books.arthur-clarke
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On 31/03/2022 21.06, Daniel65 wrote:
> R Kym Horsell wrote on 1/4/22 7:17 am:
>> In alt.astronomy a425couple <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> from
>>> https://www.indiatimes.com/technology/science-and-future/hubble-telescope-captures-most-distant-star-situated-28-billion-light-years-away-565774.html
>>>
>>> Hubble Telescope Captures Most Distant Star Situated 28 Billion
>>> Light-Years Away
>>> 2 min read
>> ....
>>
>>
>> UNPOSSIBUL! Da youinbers is only 14 billin yeers ol! Dat wood break da
>> speed limit!!
> 
> Yeap, that's the point I took out of the article as well .... that the light from a star 29 Billion Light Yeas away took only 14 Billion years to get here, so that light must have been travelling at twice the speed of light!!

The reason that it seems that way is that the universe has been
expanding. As it expanded, the distance between us and that star
increased.

-- 
Michael F. Stemper
Psalm 94:3-6