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How can the Universe expand faster than the speed of light?

Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe

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Is There More Space Than Before?

There's more space popping up everywhere in the universe, even between like the space of my fingers. The expansion is actually really quite weak. We're talking about 70 kilometers per second over 3 million light years. Every second each megaparsec grows fractionally by a tiny, tiny, tiny amount.

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