Looking up!

by Kevin T McEneaney

Since the Big Bang, nothing has been added

to the universe that we inhabit.

The universe continues to expand.

Astronomers can’t comprehend the now;

they study only the far distant past.

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Behind most distant galaxies we see,

the cosmos is invisible to us

by a factor of at least two hundred times.

This fact is difficult to comprehend….

We’ll never be able to see all light!

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Cosmic rays that reach our planet arrive

from 13.8 billion years ago.

The cosmos is now expanding faster

than the speed of light. And what does that mean?