How can we see the light from a very distant galaxy?

You look the sky to the east and see and 8 billion light year galaxy then you look the other way west and see?

  • another galaxy but 10 billion years away. Would that add up to an18 billion years old universe?

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    Back when the universe was new, just after the Big Bang, light was young and capable of traveling much faster than it can today. So, a light-year was much further then than now. That explains the vast distances we see today.

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No, as a matter of fact, it would tell me that the spot the big bang occured was exactly 14 billion light years between the two!

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