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rearls t1_ivpm9uy wrote
Reply to comment by JensAypa in Ask Anything Wednesday - Physics, Astronomy, Earth and Planetary Science by AutoModerator
Ok so it's not like the Big Bang threw things apart so fast and so far that light hasn't got to us yet?
JensAypa t1_ivpr13w wrote
Yes it is, too ! What you said in your message was perfectly true. The further we look, the further back we are looking in time, and we cannot see further and older than around 380'000 years after the Big Bang because the Universe was opaque before that. So an object that formed and emitted its first light some millions of years after the Big Bang, but whose light has to travel more than 13.8 billion light years (the Universe is 13.8 billion years old), is not visible by any telescope.
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