If I have a super large telescope, would I be looking towards the beginning of the universe no matter which direction I point it?

Question

I read that the Hubble telescope could look 13.2 billion years back in time – what would it see if it turned 180 degrees and looked the other way?

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Answer 1

An easy analogy is if you were on a boat out at see. You can only see so far out due to the curvature of the Earth. Someone else out in the ocean would have a different horizon since they would only be able to see the same distance around them.

This is also what you can think of for using a telescope. Earth is a boat out in the universes ocean. Every direction you look you can see the same distance away. This isn’t due to curvature like the ocean boat example. Instead it’s due to the speed of light which is a constant. We see the same distance in every direction because it took the light that long to reach us.