Sentences with phrase «visible edge of the universe»

The visible edge of the universe is, by definition, the most distant thing that we can see.

Not exact matches

The orbiting watchtower will sense collisions clear to the edge of the visible universe, back to the dawn of time.

But that and other far - fetched ideas may inspire the ambitious projects necessary to catch a glimpse of the core — a place just 3,950 miles below our feet and yet, in many ways, less accessible than the edge of the visible universe, 13.8 billion light - years away.

Schaefer realized that only a gamma - ray burst, the most powerful type of explosion ever observed, is bright enough to give us information about conditions near the edge of the visible universe, more than 13 billion light - years away.

2 Lined up end to end, they would stretch some 10 billion light - years — literally from here to the edge of the visible universe.

One digs into the earth while the other looks at the sky, and a stone tool once wielded by Homo erectus couldn't be more different from an exploding star at the edge of the visible universe.

Some are speeding away at about 1000 kilometres per second, and it seems likely the flow continues to the edge of the visible universe.

Hundreds of clusters of galaxies are streaming en masse towards a region at the edge of the visible universe.

Look across space from one edge of the visible universe to the other, and you'll see that the microwave background radiation filling the cosmos is at the same temperature everywhere.

They had found the edge of the universe, or at least the visible part of it, 90 billion trillion miles away.