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

a425couple wrote on 5/4/22 2:06 am:
> 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
>>> ....
>>>
>>>
>>> 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.

And, remember that at and soon after The Big Bang, the Speed of Light 
was a damned sight faster than it is now, so that might give a bit more 
wriggle-room!!
-- 
Daniel