How did very distant stars have enough time to come to so far apart.

Subject: How did very distant stars have enough time to come to so far apart.

Date: Tue Mar 18 13:17:15 1997
Posted by: Rolf Pettersson
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Country: Sweden
Area of science: Astronomy
Message ID: 858712635.As

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How did very distant stars have enough time to come to so far apart.
Every now and then one can read statements like "the space telescope
have discovered a galaxy some 15 billion light years away meaning
the light we recieve now was emitted 15 billion years ago when the
age of the universe was 5 billion years old". How could the distance
between us and the other galaxy have been so large then unless it
had expanded with a speed greater than that of light?

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