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Originally Posted by prarieboy
I would like to know one thing though, if the image is 78 billion light years away isn't the image a picture of that portion of the sky as it was 78 billion light years ago??
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Yes, it is. And that, really, is why the image is important. It offers a glimpse of what the universe consisted of, and the way it was expanding, at that very early stage. I think the makers of this piece focused on the size scale because it's easier to communicate visually, but leaving out the time scale is almost misleading.