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What is the farthest place from earth?

Answer 1

The edge of the observable universe is estimated to be 46.5 billion light years away.

Given that the universe is 13.8 billion years old, one might anticipate that, if the speed of light were the fastest possible force, the "edge" of the universe would be located 13.8 billion light years away.

But because the universe is expanding at the same rate as space itself, light traveling from very far away to us is like riding an upward escalator.

The present estimate for the radius of the observable universe is 46.5 billion light years, meaning that the most distant, theoretically detectable things in the universe have moved considerably farther away since they emitted light 13.8 billion years ago.

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Answer 2

Layla Anderson

The edge of the observable universe is the furthest point from Earth; it is estimated to be 46.5 billion light-years away.

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