Quote Originally Posted by dclamp
it is amazing that we know of objects that are a distance of 10 billion miles away...
The furthest visible object with the naked eye is the Andromeda galaxy. Although it has a magnitude of only 3.4, it occupies about the same diameter in the night sky as the moon and the sun and is at a distance of over 2.5 million light years.

Gives a new meaning to the term long sighted.