What is the most distant object ever photographed and how many light years away from the earth is it?
2007-08-09 05:27:54 · 5 answers · asked by Bob Lahblah 3 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
Redshift 5.5 Quasar. At a redshift of 5.5, light travelling from 5.5 Quasar has journeyed about 13 billion years to get here. See reference below.
2007-08-09 05:33:06 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The most distant mass structure observed so far was a Quasar in the Constelation Cetus. About 13 billion light years away from the Earth.Perhaps there are more further away that we have not seen yet.
Per Big Bang theory formation of the Universe took place from a singularity which dissipated radially from its origin. If that is the case than the further a mass from the origin the younger the structure. The closer the mass from the singularity origin the oldest the mass structure.
The Big Bang theory does offer many concepts which are very ,vely interesting.
On the other hand if the Universe was created from its outer shell location It would be the Reverse of what the Big Bang singularity alludes to.
This argument is very similar and compares to the Construction of the Pyramids. Where there constructed inward toward out ward, or were they constructed outward toward inward.
2007-08-09 14:23:57 · answer #2 · answered by goring 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
An unnamed distant galaxy over 13 billion light years away.
At that distance, there are several, deciding which one is the most distant is delicate, and is based on the Doppler red shift value. And that is the one found looking "that way", in a area the same size as a coin left at the street corner, there are plenty in all the other directions that have not been looked at yet...
2007-08-09 12:33:06 · answer #3 · answered by Vincent G 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The furthest object photoed from Earth are Quasars, some of them are more than a billion light years away, but are they still there?
The light that we see from these objects is just now reaching the Earth, these objects may have gone out over a million years ago, but their light is just now getting here.
And as they develop bigger and better telescopes we will be able to pick up light from even further.
2007-08-09 12:40:07 · answer #4 · answered by John R 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The guys above were right - until 2 years ago. The current record holder is GRB 050904 at a redshift of 6.29, less than a billion years after the universe began.
http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/050912_distant_explosion.html
2007-08-09 13:53:27 · answer #5 · answered by eri 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋