• Question: how far can your telescopes see to?

    Asked by samandaashishlgs to Chris on 15 Jun 2011.
    • Photo: Christopher Phillips

      Christopher Phillips answered on 15 Jun 2011:

      Right now we have been able to see back to almost 13.4 billion light years.
      That means we can look almost back to the BIG BANG! Amazing stuff!
      In fact the Subaru telescope here on the mountain discovered some of the most distant and earliest objects in the universe!

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