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

On 3/31/2022 7:06 PM, 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
>> ....
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>> 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!!
> 
> Now where's the guy that claims nothing can go faster than the speed of 
> light?? ;-)

Yeah.
The number 28 did strike me as strange.
If it had been 24, 25, or 26, it would have been
more easily understood.

If the Big Bang took place 13.8 Billion years ago,
and that star Reginald went That-A-Way, and
we went This-A-Way at near the speed of light,
then, OK.