How Far Into the Past Can Our Telescopes See? [Chart]

Jan 27th 2011
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On every occasion we point a telescope at the sky we’re looking into the past. This chart shows how far we are able to go. At once, Hubble’s Ultra Deep Field IR can see as far as 480 million years after the large Bang.

The James Webb Space Telescope will allow us to peer 200 million years after the large Bang. In a cosmic scale, that’s kind of like gazing the beginning of all this starstuff we call the Universe. I’m wondering if we can ever be capable of get to the point of watching the gigantic Bang itself. If which might be watched, anyway. [ NASA ]

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