WHETHER OR NOT OUR COSMOS TOAN END IS A QUESTION ASTRONOMERS ARE TACKLING WITH SOME SUPRISING RESULTS
Look out on a clear night and you can see pretty far into the universe. Some of the stars you’ll spot sit over 10,000 light years from Earth. Even further away is the famous Andromeda Galaxy, the nearest major star city to our own Milky Way and debatably the most distant object you can see with your eyes a lone. It is a staggering 2.5 million light years from us. That means the light arriving on Earth today from Andromeda has been trekking across space for 2.5 million years to get here. All of human history has played out in the time it's taken for light to reach us from just our nearest galaxy. With binoculars and telescopes you can continue to see objects further and further from home. But where does it all end? Does it even end? “We just don’t k now,” says Andrew Pontzen, a cosmologist at University College London. “There is no evidence for an edge to the universe, but there is an
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