If there is a bright center to the universe, as we the planet that it's farthest from?
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No, that would be tatooine, silly!
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If the Andromeda Galaxy is 2.5 million light years away and it's the only galaxy on Earth to be seen by the naked eye, it leaves us to wonder how far it really is.\n\nPersonally, I googled it. I couldn't find a thing relating to the blank nothingness further than the universe.\nI only looked a little bit, but there are very few educational guesses on the Internet.\n\nMaybe you should try. Googling that is. Maybe it's you who'll find the right words to search it in.  \nThe words stumped me so the was probably my problem.\n\nGood luck on finding the answer!\n-Marissa
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The sun is the closest star to Earth.
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The universe is so large that light from some places which has been traveling towards us since the moment after the Big Bang still hasn't had time to reach us.  The universe is 13.7 billion years old.  That makes the observable universe 13.7 billion light years across.  Since a light year is nearly 6 trillion miles, the observable universe is larger than you can probably imagine.\n\nAlso, the universe is expanding at such a rate that light from its farthest reaches will never be able to get here.  Since you can never travel faster than light, there is no way anyone from Earth will ever be able to see if the universe ends.
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The universe encloses all the stars and galaxies...so the answer is...we would see the universe. By the way, if I was that far out there and looking back, I'd be worried about what was sneaking up behind me.
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Not counting the sun, the closest star to earth is Proxima Centauri, which is about 4.1 light years away from the earth. Light travels at 300 000 km/s so you can now use this to calculate the distant. 4.1 light years x 365 days per one light year x 12 months per 1 year x 30 days per one month, x 24 hours per one day x 60 minutes per one hour x 60 seconds per one minute = 4,654,713,600 seconds. Multiply this figure by 300 000 km/s and you get an answer of 1,396,414,080,000,000 Kilometers.
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Venus, but the brightness of the light reflecting off it is simply because of its close proximity to earth.
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Come to think of it... we all know that our planet is an insignificant speck circling an ordinary star, far out on a spiral arm of the Milky Way Galaxy, which is an ordinary congress of a few HUNDRED BILLION stars among at least a HUNDRED BILLION GALAXIES!!!\nWe are still the only intilligent life we know of anywhere. But now humankind has taken a dramatic leap towards a possible demotion. Planet-hunting scientists and astronomers world wide are refining their technique in detecting other planets in far off stars & galaxies. who knows that one day, we may be able to find a world that is much like ours?\nFor now, humanity can bask in its special status as the only life known to be contemplating such questions. Many scientists predicts that this distinction, too, will crumble. But the search for other worlds is not only a quest for kindred intelligenc. it is also about the destiny of human species. Where are we going to be a hundred million years from now? Where will we go, and how will we get there? And how will it change who we are? _end
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The galaxy Abell 1835 IR1916 is reported to be 13,230 million light-years from us.\n\nRed shift is the main method of estimating distance from us. We can also measure distance by the apparent luminosity of certain objects, such as variable stars and supernovas.\n\nAs our telescopes look further and further away, we are also looking back in time. So what we see past the furthest galaxies would be gas, and beyond that is the cosmic background radiation from the time the universe cooled to the point where it ceased being a plasma.
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If it doesn't move or twinkle, it is the planet Venus.\n\nThis answer brings me to level 3.  Thanks all!
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Yes.\n\nThere is so much of this universe that we do not know.
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Well the nearest star system is light years away. So if they send one, we won't find out the findings. Besides, how would we send commands and receive them, they would have to travel light years of distance. So I would say no.
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Often when people are told that galaxies are receding from us, they assume that means we are at the center of the Universe.  However, remember that the Universe is homogeneous and isotropic.  No matter where one is, it looks the same in all directions.  Thus, all galaxies\nsee all other galaxies receding from them.  Hubble's relationship is compatible with a Copernican view of the Universe: Our position is not a special one.\n\nSo where is the center?  *There isn't one*.  Although apparently nonsensical, consider the same question about the *surface* of a sphere (note the *surface*).  Where's the center of a sphere's surface?  Of course, there isn't one.  One cannot point to any point on a sphere's surface and say that, here is the center.  Similarly, because the Universe is homogeneous and isotropic, all we can say is\nthat, in the past, galaxies were closer together.  We cannot say that galaxies started expanding from any particular point.
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Brightness as seen on earth is called Magnitude.\nBrightness as would be seen from orbit around star is called Luminosity.
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The universe in which we live is about 156 billion light years across.  Source: news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/3753115.stm  Whats beyond that, good luck
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We have no idea, mainly because the visible universe is still expanding.  This is because light travels at a fixed speed and light from the far side of the universe has not yet caught up with us on this side. So the light we see from farthest away, the “other end”, was actually emitted billions of years ago by stars that are no longer where they appear to be to us.  That being said so far all we've seen just indicates more galaxies of the type found at this end. Most physicists today attribute this expanding movement to the “big bang” theory.  I’ll include an article you may find interesting in my sources.\n\nBest Regards,\n\nArmust
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With the nearly infinite number of stars out there, it is reasonable to expect that life has developed on another planet. However, we won't know for sure until we actually encounter that lifeform, and that may be a long way off.