• Question: How far away is the furthest away star that you have ever seen in light years?

    Asked by TommyBean M to Helen on 12 Nov 2014.
    • Photo: Helen Johnson

      Helen Johnson answered on 12 Nov 2014:

      Hi Tommy,
      I don’t really look at stars so much as distant galaxies – stars in our galaxy are really bright and tend to get in the way a bit when you’re trying to look past them 😉 The furthest back I’ve looked is about 10 billion light years, using data from the VLT in Chile – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uVCFc0ZiRt8

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