The most distant thing you can see with the naked eye is our nearest red blooded galaxy, the andrometa galaxy. The stars you see in the night sky are tens hundreds of thousands of light years away. You're seeing hundreds of billions of stars, the muddled, muddy light, the blended light of hundreds of billion of stars that comprise the andrometta galaxy. That is the farthest object visible. Would you am venture to think that if there are people there, that they could see us the same fuzzy way we see them? Oh, by all means. Think about that all the time. In fact, if thereere, if there isn life there,. And they had
Neil deGrasse Tyson and comic co-host Russell Peters answer fan-submitted questions on a variety of astrophysical topics including Pluto, the Andromeda Galaxy, the Magellanic Clouds, the Equator and the Earth’s axis, E = mc2, exoplanets, the Moon, and more!
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