I have seen two of the most significant events regarding humans and the Solar System

Bretrick

Bretrick

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On July 21(Australia) 1969 as a 7 year old I watched Neil Armstrong step onto the moon.
The first human to achieve this feat.
This morning, September 27 (Australia) at 7.24am I watched the DART Spacecraft slam into the Asteroid Dimorphos at 14,000 mph.
The mission is to see if the impact has any effect on the trajectory of the asteroid - change it's course.
A momentous achievement, sending a small spacecraft to rendezvous with an asteroid 6,800,000 miles from Earth.
With live feed so all on Earth could watch it.
Now we await the science to tell us if the course of the comet has changed any.
 

Bretrick said:
On July 21(Australia) 1969 as a 7 year old I watched Neil Armstrong step onto the moon.
The first human to achieve this feat.
This morning, September 27 (Australia) at 7.24am I watched the DART Spacecraft slam into the Asteroid Dimorphos at 14,000 mph.
The mission is to see if the impact has any effect on the trajectory of the asteroid - change it's course.
A momentous achievement, sending a small spacecraft to rendezvous with an asteroid 6,800,000 miles from Earth.
With live feed so all on Earth could watch it.
Now we await the science to tell us if the course of the comet has changed any.
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Your eyesight must be incredible!!!
 
Bretrick said:
The question is - How far can the eye really see? :unsure:
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With the aid of the Hubble telescope.

The Hubble Space Telescope can see billions of light-years into space, with its most distant observation being the GN-z11 galaxy, which is approximately 13.4 billion light-years away. This distance allows Hubble to effectively "look back in time" by capturing light from the very early universe, shortly after the Big Bang, as this is the limit of the universe's transparency to light.
 

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