[JusPasenThru]

Here’s the thing...If you look up into the night sky, that faraway star you are seeing the light of may not even be a star anymore...it won’t be where you are looking anyway...If the star is 1,000,000 light years away, that light you are seeing is 1,000,000 years old...

When I read that I started to cry...it's so profound...

[JBW1949]

LOL...I’m so glad I brought you so much “profoundness”...:o)

[chimera]

It is. The speed of light, though swift for us, is no match for the vastness of space. Even our own galaxy, which is something like 100,000 light years across, the light starting out from the opposite rim when Christ was born would be only 1/50th of the way across by now. And that’s just in the local neighborhood. Imagine what it is like between galaxies.

[Conan the Librarian]

Actually if you look at the night sky, even in the darkest places on Earth, the furthest STARS you can see aren’t much more than 1500 light years away.

The furthest galaxy you can see without a scope may be M81 and it has to be REAL dark and you better have good eyesight.

Occasionally there will be a supernova in some close galaxy that you can see with a scope, that would be the furthest star you can see with a scope. There was one in M82 a few years ago that could easily be seen with a small scope.

The furthest galaxy you can see with a telescope is 3c273.

If I remember right its 2.3 Billion LY. You need a good scope to see it.