Edge of the visible universe

[Oldboy913]

As the things out there are traveling away from us, is anybody watching for them disappearing from our view.

[Calibax]

They don't disappear off the edge of the universe like ships over the horizon. The universe just gets bigger.

[DTCwordfan]

now I know where my keys have gone..

[rov1200]

I had a similar thought just a few days ago. If life was transported onto our planet from a distant object we could never contact it again. The only hope would be a comet whose trajectory might bring it closer again.

[Oldboy913]

Thank you for your answers so far. . Consider these points, scientists are now telling us that there is a limit to how far we can see into space, it is an accepted fact that the universe is expanding, therefore things that are just at the limit of our vision will disappear.

An analogy would be a traveler on a boat in a fog, as visible things get further away they disappear from his view.

[jake-the-peg]

Well it's not a very good analogy but I guess it will do.

The problem is that the things that far away are

A) very faint just detecting them at all is a major miracle

B) very early - you're looking at things very early on in the Universes' history. there weren't that many luminous objects around then, and those that were there were shrouded in gas that absorbed their light.

II think this is the current record holder.

http://news.sciencema...istant-object-ev.html