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When you see a star that’s x light years away, you’re seeing the light that cane from it x light years ago. Theoretically, if you found a light source that is 13.8 billion light years away, would you be seeing the Big Bang or something in close proximity time wise to the Big Bang?

by /u/jtbfisher in /r/askscience

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