As of May 2004, the universe was estimated to be 56 billion light years wide and the radius measures at 78 billion years. Anyway you look at it, you'll be really old when you reach the end of the line.
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"If the universe was finite, and had a size of about 4 billion to 5 billion light-years, then light would be able to wrap around the universe, and with a big enough telescope we could view the Earth just after it solidified and when the first life formed," Cornish said.
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Universe - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Universe comprises everything that physically exists: the entirety of space and time, all forms of matter, energy and momentum, and the physical laws and constants that govern them. However, the...
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Observable universe - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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In Big Bang cosmology, the observable universe consists of the galaxies and other matter that we can in principle observe from Earth in the present day, because light (or other signals) from those o...
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At least 13.7 billion light years years to the edge. Double that for diameter. That's all we are able to observe at the present time. (Several theories exist, including many variations on the proposed size and shape.) Calculation by Inver...
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I'm a 13 year old student from Denmark, who wants to know how big the Universe is and how the size of it is measured. ... For instance, there are already several answers in the 'Ask an Astrophysicist' archive which deal with the size and age of the Universe. If you enter things like 'size of the Universe', 'age of the...
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Subject: Age and size of universe? ... Age and size of universe? If quasars can be seen at 10 billion light years away and the universe is "only" 15 billion years old doesn't this mean that the universe is at least 20 billion light years across and to have expanded to that size wouldn't matter have had to travel faster...
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Universe size comparison ... Size Of The Universe ... The size of Universe take a tour..
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The Universe pulls off a clever trick - appearing smaller than it really is. ... By mapping tiniest temperature fluctuations (mottled colours above) in CMB, astronomers can "see" distribution of matter in early Universe ... The Universe is at least 156 billion light-years wide, say astronomers.
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