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? asked in Science & MathematicsAstronomy & Space · 1 decade ago

Astronomy, speed of light?

I'm watching a show on speed of light, telescopes. No matter where these telescopes look they find things, new galaxies and stuff way out there. Have astronomers found any blank spaces where there is nothing or the light has not reached us yet? Is it possible to see nothing through these wonderful telescopes? Pardon my wording, I have no science training. I'm not even sure what I'm asking.

Update:

Maybe I'm wondering what happens when we can't see any further. An idle curiosity question.

Update 2:

Yes, double chill, I am. I am not really able to articulate my question, What is after the infinate view maybe?

Update 3:

Actually, I'm wondering if there is a place found with no light (not blocked light) where it is beyond the speed of light and it has not reached us. My apolgies for poor wording.

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago
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    I can't answer anyy of your questions but do you happen to be watching the history channel???? lol

  • 1 decade ago

    Telescopes are not limited by distances. They can look into infinite distances. But the light emanating from such a spot also takes infinite time; not conceivable.

    The limitation is not the telescope but that of our Retina (in the eye) or the photographic plate (or CCD) that should be blamed. If the light is too feeble it doesn't register on the eye. Light gets diminished by travelling over a distance. If it travels double the distance, it is diminished by a fourth. If it travels over ten times the distance then it gets so weak that it is only a hundredth in brilliance. In order that the far far away object should send out enough powerful light (so that it is registered on the retina), it needs to be far more brighter. At infinite distance it needs to be infinitely dazzling bright (impossible again). Our Sun with its dazzling, blinding brilliance if moved to the same distance as 'Arcturus' (Alpha Bootes, the fourth brightest star as seen from Earth), it would be one of the very faint stars (about magnitude +5.00), that wouldn't be seen in the sky of a city.

  • 1 decade ago

    There are plenty of places in the sky with no visible light to be seen. But there is invisible light (actually radio waves, which are just like light but of a color the eye cannot see) everywhere in the sky. It is called the Cosmic Microwave Background.

  • 1 decade ago

    Yes, there are dark places in the sky. The main reason is cloud of dust, blocking light from stars on the other side. But even if there were no dust clouds, there would not be stars everywhere we look.

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  • Irv S
    Lv 7
    1 decade ago

    Provided you mean ALL the radiation coming in, no you can never see nothing.

    There is an almost uniform 'glow' of Cosmic Microwave Background, that

    covers the entire sky no matter where you look.

  • 1 decade ago

    Assuming the aperture is constant, there ought not be any regions completely void of visible matter. This is partly because the BB happened everywhere and not in one quadrant of the universe.

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