tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18537544.post116900275884478104..comments2023-08-17T02:25:47.035-07:00Comments on Basic Questions: How Wide is the Universe? - revisitedNotesTracker - Tony Austinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09051436094635008734noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18537544.post-60928279303436782212009-12-21T14:17:05.392-08:002009-12-21T14:17:05.392-08:00Not sure either way. I'm no astronomer or cosm...Not sure either way. I'm no astronomer or cosmologist, just interested in all this stuff!<br /><br />I see that NASA's recently refurbished Hubble platform has taken earlier this December some fascinating snaps with its Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3 - described at http://sm4.gsfc.nasa.gov/technology/sm4_wfc3.php ).<br /><br />See, for example, the Skymania article "Hubble sees to edge of universe" at http://news.skymania.com/2009/12/hubble-sees-to-edge-of-universe.html mentioning "incredible photograph, covering a square patch of sky just a 15th the width of the full moon. Yet that tiny bit of the heavens alone is crammed with thousands of whirls and blurs - each one a collection of many millions or billions of stars."NotesTracker - Tony Austinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09051436094635008734noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18537544.post-58960309438189828942009-12-18T00:25:33.365-08:002009-12-18T00:25:33.365-08:00kalim above.. so you say the whole universe is 92-...kalim above.. so you say the whole universe is 92-94 ly across?..err maybe you want to check your source againAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18537544.post-83196746190910390272008-01-07T01:55:00.000-08:002008-01-07T01:55:00.000-08:00This info is also outdated. Acc Scientific America...This info is also outdated. Acc Scientific American, March 2005, it is 92-94 light years across.<BR/>KalimKalimhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17056033910591172091noreply@blogger.com