• Question: How far away are these galaxies and what have you found ?

    Asked by bubbles10 to Ezzy on 12 Mar 2012.
    • Photo: Elizabeth Pearson

      Elizabeth Pearson answered on 12 Mar 2012:


      They go up to a few billion light years away. We’ve found a lot of things called ‘ gravitational lenses’ which are when a big galaxy nearby bends the light from a really distant galaxy like a lens. They’re really useful, because they tell us about things that we can’t see otherwise.

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