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How far has Hubble seen into the universe?

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Hubble has been able to observe objects
way out to almost what the edge of the

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universe about 13 and a half billion
light years

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1 light year = 5.879 trillion miles

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Hubble was never designed or thought it
could see that far out,

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but because of the advances in the
instruments that we've been able to put

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up on the telescope
and also the cleverness of the

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scientists they've come up with very
interesting observing scenarios

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doing these really deep exposures where
we just sit there for orbit after orbit

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after orbit,
gathering the photons we've been able to

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push Hubble out very very far.
These very very deep exposures that

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Hubble has been able to take we have
seen

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right to the edge of the universe
13 and a half billion years.

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