[Bring_Back_Shantz]

Originally Posted by ken0042

Here's what I don't get.

So apparently the universe is about 14 billion years old. It all started with a big bang, and everything (including our solar system) is moving outwards.

If this happened 13 billion years ago, how did we manage to get 13 billion light years aways from it in 630 million years? Does that mean our galaxy is moving or once moved at 20 times the speed of light?

I don't quite understand it completely myself, but the size of the visible universe is abotu 45 billion lightyears in any direction. It has to do with the fact that all of space is expanding, so even though the light took 13 billion years to reach us, doesn't mean that we were 13 billion light years away from the object when it blew up.