How long until we Cannot see galaxies?

Only about 6% of them are reachable by us, meaning that the other 94% will always appear as they were in the past; we'll never see them as they exist 13.8 billion years after the Big Bang, as that light will never reach us.
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Will we ever be able to travel to distant galaxies?

The technology required to travel between galaxies is far beyond humanity's present capabilities, and currently only the subject of speculation, hypothesis, and science fiction. However, theoretically speaking, there is nothing to conclusively indicate that intergalactic travel is impossible.
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How many years will it take to go out of galaxy?

It's Space Day, but traveling the vast entity that is space would take far longer than a single day. The nearest galaxy: 749,000,000 (that's 749 million) years. The end of the known universe: 225,000,000,000,000 years (that's 225 trillion) years.
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How long until we cant see stars?

Therefore we will never lose sight of the stars in the Andromeda galaxy until the stars within it die and/or fade out, in approximately 10 billion years. However, if you are talking about individual stars, not the collective starlight of stars in a given galaxy, then the answer is we still cant!
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Why can't we see a galaxy 15 billion light-years away?

Galaxies may exist at that distance, but their light would be too faint for our telescopes to see. C. Because looking 15 billion light-years away means looking to a time before the universe existed.
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What is 1 light year away?

A light-year is the distance light travels in one year. How far is that? Multiply the number of seconds in one year by the number of miles or kilometers that light travels in one second, and there you have it: one light-year. It's about 5.9 trillion miles (9.5 trillion km).
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How long would it take a human to travel one light year?

Saying we were a space shuttle that travelled five miles per second, given that the speed of light travels at 186,282 miles per second, it would take about 37,200 human years to travel one light year.
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How far back in time can we see?

We can see light from 13.8 billion years ago, although it is not star light – there were no stars then. The furthest light we can see is the cosmic microwave background (CMB), which is the light left over from the Big Bang, forming at just 380,000 years after our cosmic birth.
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Can we see the future in space?

Now scientists have used the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope to look thousands of years into the future. Looking at the heart of Omega Centauri, a globular cluster in the Milky Way, they have calculated how the stars there will move over the next 10 000 years.
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What the future of the Universe will be?

As the Universe continues to expand, all the stars and galaxies will eventually exhaust their energy and the Universe will cool down, ending in the 'Big Chill'. If the density of the Universe is equal to critical density, gravity will be just sufficient to stop its expansion, but only after an infinite time.
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Will humans survive Andromeda collision?

Luckily, experts think that Earth will survive, but it won't be entirely unaffected. The collision will unfold right in front of us, changing the night sky to look like nothing any human has seen before.
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How far is Blackhole from Earth?

The EHT team's results are being published today in a special issue of The Astrophysical Journal Letters. Because the black hole is about 27,000 light-years away from Earth, it appears to us to have about the same size in the sky as a donut on the Moon.
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How many Earth years is a Lightyear?

In a vacuum, light also travels at speed of 670,616,629 mph (1,079,252,849 km/h). In one Earth year of 364.25 days (8,766 hours), light travels a distance of 5,878,625,370,000 miles (9.5 trillion km). This distance is referred to as one light year.
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Will humans ever reach another star?

The nearest star is four light years away. That means that light, traveling at 300,000 kilometers per second would still need FOUR YEARS to reach the nearest star. The fastest spacecraft ever launched by humans would need tens of thousands of years to make that trip.
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Will humans ever travel at the speed of light?

So will it ever be possible for us to travel at light speed? Based on our current understanding of physics and the limits of the natural world, the answer, sadly, is no.
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Will humans ever leave the Solar System?

Climate change is altering our planet, and some have wondered if we may have to leave Earth to another distant planet. We will never escape climate change, and unfortunately, we will never leave the Solar System, and Earth may be our home forever.
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What will happen in 2022 in space?

In late September 2022, NASA's Juno spacecraft will swoop extremely close to Jupiter's moon Europa, passing just 221 miles from its icy surface. The space agency hopes to capture detailed footage of the moon's cracked, icy ground.
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Is time Travelling possible?

Yes, time travel is indeed a real thing. But it's not quite what you've probably seen in the movies. Under certain conditions, it is possible to experience time passing at a different rate than 1 second per second. And there are important reasons why we need to understand this real-world form of time travel.
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How many people will live on the Moon in 2050?

By 2050, at least 1000 people could be living on Moon - There are all the essentials | The Economic Times.
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Can we see 14 billion light-years away?

We will never see the light from objects that are currently more than 15 billion light years away, because the universe is still expanding. We are losing 20,000 stars every second to an area that will forever remain beyond our future view.
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Could we see a galaxy that is 50 billion light-years away?

Could we see a galaxy that is 50 billion light-years away? A. No, because it would be beyond the bounds of our observable universe.
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How many universes are there?

In a new study, Stanford physicists Andrei Linde and Vitaly Vanchurin have calculated the number of all possible universes, coming up with an answer of 10^10^16.
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How long would it take to get to Pluto?

So how long does it take to get to Pluto? Roughly 9-12 years. You could probably get there faster, but then you'd get less science done, and it probably wouldn't be worth the rush. Are you super excited about the New Horizons flyby of Pluto?
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How long would it take to get to Mars?

The trip to Mars will take about seven months and about 300 million miles (480 million kilometers). During that journey, engineers have several opportunities to adjust the spacecraft's flight path, to make sure its speed and direction are best for arrival at Jezero Crater on Mars.
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How many light-years does a human live?

Going at the same rate, it's going to take you roughly 11.3 billion days to make a journey equivalent to one light-year. The average American human life is currently estimated at 78.74 years, which translates into 28,740 days. So you would have to live about 400,000 times longer than the average American to get there.
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