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The far limit of the visible universe is the cosmic microwave background, which is the heavily red-shifted view of when all of space was filled with an opaque plasma of similar temperature to the surface of a star[0].

The galaxies we're seeing are in front of that.

[0] 3000 K, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recombination_(cosmology)

parent ben_w 3 years ago

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