How far has Hubble seen into the universe?
Hubble has been able to observe objects way out to almost what the edge of the
universe about 13 and a half billion light years
1 light year = 5.879 trillion miles
Hubble was never designed or thought it could see that far out,
but because of the advances in the instruments that we've been able to put
up on the telescope and also the cleverness of the
scientists they've come up with very interesting observing scenarios
doing these really deep exposures where we just sit there for orbit after orbit
after orbit, gathering the photons we've been able to
push Hubble out very very far. These very very deep exposures that
Hubble has been able to take we have seen
right to the edge of the universe 13 and a half billion years.
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