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  2. Hubble volume - Wikipedia

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    In cosmology, a Hubble volume (named for the astronomer Edwin Hubble) or Hubble sphere, Hubble bubble, subluminal sphere, causal sphere and sphere of causality is a spherical region of the observable universe surrounding an observer beyond which objects recede from that observer at a rate greater than the speed of light due to the expansion of ...

  3. Cosmological horizon - Wikipedia

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    Hubble radius, Hubble sphere (not to be confused with a Hubble bubble), Hubble volume, or Hubble horizon is a conceptual horizon defining the boundary between particles that are moving slower and faster than the speed of light relative to an observer at one given time. Note that this does not mean the particle is unobservable; the light from ...

  4. Observable universe - Wikipedia

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    The light from the smallest, most redshifted galaxies originated nearly 13.8 billion years ago. The comoving distance from Earth to the edge of the observable universe is about 14.26 gigaparsecs (46.5 billion light-years or 4.40 × 10 26 m) in any direction.

  5. Cosmology - Wikipedia

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    The Hubble eXtreme Deep Field (XDF) was completed in September 2012 and shows the farthest galaxies ever photographed at that time. Except for the few stars in the foreground (which are bright and easily recognizable because only they have diffraction spikes), every speck of light in the photo is an individual galaxy, some of them as old as 13.2 billion years; the observable universe is ...

  6. Astronomy - Wikipedia

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    This interdisciplinary field encompasses research on the origin of planetary systems, origins of organic compounds in space, rock-water-carbon interactions, abiogenesis on Earth, planetary habitability, research on biosignatures for life detection, and studies on the potential for life to adapt to challenges on Earth and in outer space. [82 ...

  7. Cosmic inflation - Wikipedia

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    These parts of the Universe are outside our current cosmological horizon, which is believed to be 46 billion light years in all directions from Earth. [14] In the standard hot big bang model, without inflation, the cosmological horizon moves out, bringing new regions into view. [ 15 ]

  8. Expansion of the universe - Wikipedia

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    Visibility of these objects depends on the exact expansion history of the universe. Light that is emitted today from galaxies beyond the more-distant cosmological event horizon, about 5 gigaparsecs or 16 billion light-years, will never reach us, although we can still see the light that these galaxies emitted in the past. Because of the high ...

  9. Fine-tuned universe - Wikipedia

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    This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 21 January 2025. Hypothesis about life in the universe For the concept of a fine-tuned Earth, see Rare Earth hypothesis. Part of a series on Physical cosmology Big Bang · Universe Age of the universe Chronology of the universe Early universe Inflation · Nucleosynthesis Backgrounds Gravitational wave ...