Students and faculty at BYU’s Department of Physics and Astronomy understand the value of the stars, and they dedicate their ...

The observable universe is vast, extending about 93 billion light-years across, containing galaxies, stars, planets, and all ...

The universe's vastness challenges human comprehension. It contains trillions of galaxies and countless stars. Pluto's distance highlights cosmic scales. The observable universe spans 93 billion ...

Imagine discovering the universe’s most powerful explosion, an event so significant that it won the Nobel Prize in Physics. This video dives into the moment scientists first detected ...

We may never know what lies beyond the boundaries of the observable universe, but the fabric of the cosmos can tell us whether the universe is infinite or not By Leah Crane 25 June 2024 ...

The observable universe's 46-billion-light-year radius is not a contradiction of the universe's 13.8-billion-year age because the universe itself is expanding. The speed of light limit applies to ...

Understanding the shape of the universe is notoriously difficult. When it comes to local geometry, scientists are relatively certain that the observable universe is flat —or, at least nearly flat.

The observable universe is still pretty big, we guess. Image credit: NASA, ESA, P. OESCH OF THE UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA, AND M. MONTES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES.

That 93 billion light-year number refers to what astronomers call the observable universe, and it extends about 46.5 billion light-years in every direction from us.

The Resnick Center for Herbert Bayer Studies (the Bayer Center), presents “Richard Carter’s Observable Universe,” opening Wednesday in the Paepcke Gallery. The exhibition includes 18 works from seven ...

This marks the edge of the observable Universe, and while you might think that means the Universe is 26 billion light-years across, thanks to cosmic expansion, it is now closer to 46 billion light ...