• Question: Do you think we will ever get the oppurtunity to visit another galaxy

    Asked by anon-193409 to Jamal, Morwenna, iainstaniland, Heidi, Emma, Carl on 13 Nov 2018.
    • Photo: Emma Crawford

      Emma Crawford answered on 13 Nov 2018:

      If we ever will be able to, I think it won’t be for a very long time! They are all very far away, way farther than we can travel. The closest one we know of, called the Canis Major Dwarf Galaxy is 25,000 light years away. That means the light reaching us from that galaxy was emitted back before humans formed their first agricultural civilizations.

    • Photo: Heidi Gardner

      Heidi Gardner answered on 13 Nov 2018:

      An attempt to travel to any other galaxy would be a journey of millions of earth years via conventional flight, so there would need to be a lot of scientific advances made before we can do this. Science is always advancing, but this would need an awful lot of work and I’m not sure it’ll happen in my life time!

    • Photo: Iain Staniland

      Iain Staniland answered on 16 Nov 2018:

      Well unless there is some pretty major advance in our technology the answer is sadly not in the near future. The fact that if you set off now it would take you 25,000 years is by some chance you managed to find a way to travel at the speed of light.

      But the strange thing is actually you would not feel it took that long at all as time would be different for you and traveling at or near the speed of light you would age much slower.

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