What actually is the “observable universe”?

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The observable universe. Does it mean the edge of space where nothing else is? Is it where the universe is currently at in its expansion after the big bang? Or is it just a barrier that our telescopes are yet to look beyond, and there are just more galaxies past it?

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It’s just everything we’ve had enough time to be able to see. As time continues to pass, the observable universe gets larger and larger because we’ve had more time to see it.

Because of this, the observable universe is centered on humans, since it’s basically how far *we* can detect things.

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