Answer the question of the person above

[DeepComet5581]

IT FAILS EPICALLY!!

[Jubal]

Just *pray* Sash never reads this thread...

I haven't read Twilight. I don't have a huge problem with it, it's just a romance book series. People do over-obsess about it MAJORLY though.

[stormcloud]

ok, my question I believe

How far can we see into the universe/space?

[DeepComet5581]

Quite far.

It depends where certain satellites are and what anomalies and events are happening.

[stormcloud]

stop being roundabout

I gues it should be phrased, what is the furthest we can see into space

[DeepComet5581]

As I said, it's relative. We can see only as far as light allows. Using infra-red cameras, we can see galaxies hundreds of billions of miles away.

[stormcloud]

no, all light travels at the same speed

and by furthest I mean the most far we can ever see

from earth/ earth orbit satellites

[DeepComet5581]

I didn't say anything about the SPEED of light.
The PRESENCE of light.
We could actually see anything in the universe, our view of it is infinite, as the universe itself is estimated at 13 billion years old. This means that the light from stars quadriliions (Yes, it's a word) of miles away can be seen from earth. For example, recently, scientists observed the supernova of a star that went nearly 8 billion years ago, and it's light from that supernova has just reached us.

[stormcloud]

wrooooong, but if I explain it then it would ruin the answer
I'll give till friday

[DeepComet5581]

So far to date, the farthest object seen is Galaxy Abell 1835 IR1916, estimated at 13.2 billion light years away.
This is a picture of the Abell 1835 cluster taken using a near-infrared (Not quite) instrument on the Very Large Telescope.

[stormcloud]

still wrong, don't forget, we can read the COBE, go look at youtube videos on the universes origin, may help

[stormcloud]

Pretty much the limit is 46 billion light years, this is because space can stretch faster than light speed, and it did for a period of time after the big bang, for more info click below

watch : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MoTNGmlOO2g

[DeepComet5581]

How were any of us meant to get that?

[stormcloud]

I expected you to do a bit of looking

eg http://www94.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=radius+of+the+universe

wolframalpha is the win

[DeepComet5581]

I doubt any of us would have found that.