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

Michael F. Stemper wrote on 2/4/22 7:01 am:
> 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.

Yeap, that'd work .... if we were at one end of the Universe and this 
most distant star were at the other end of the Universe, .... and we had 
both been streaming away from The Big Bang event in exactly opposite 
directions for those 14 Billion Years.

But, then, that would mean we were on the extreme edge of the Universe 
so half our sky should be empty or at least some what empty.

But I can't see that when I look up at night! Or with any of my three 
telescopes!!
-- 
Daniel