What S Beyond Space
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What s beyond space. Director nasa planetary science division. He also observed and calculated that they were moving away from the earth and concluded that the universe is expanding. Astronomers think space might be infinite with stuff energy galaxies etc distributed pretty much the same as it is in the observable universe.
Skip to main content. And even if it did you could never go there because it is expanding so fast that the farthest parts are unreachable. Astronomers think space outside of the observable universe might be an infinite expanse of what we see in the cosmos around us distributed pretty much the same as it is in the observable universe.
Edwin hubble after whom nasa s space telescope is named was the first astronomer to discover galaxies beyond our own. Please deactivate your ad blocker in order to see our subscription offer. Paul sutter is an astrophysicist at the ohio state university and the chief scientist at cosi science center sutter is also host of the podcasts ask a spaceman and realspace and the youtube.
If it is that. The universe has no edge. Five robotic spacecraft have sufficient velocity to escape the bounds of our solar system and travel into interstellar space but only one nasa s voyager 1 has crossed that boundary so far.