The Ladder of Scale · structure

Hubble sphere

Cosmological · 28.8 billion ly

Within
Observable universe
Population
the recession-speed-of-light radius
Size (ly)
28800000000
Kind
Cosmological
Redshift
1

Notes

The distance at which space is receding from us at the speed of light — 14.4 billion light-years out. Counter-intuitively we can still see things beyond it, because the sphere itself grows.

Open on the The Ladder of Scale shelf — the interactive card, the filters, and everything alongside it.

From the Cosmic Structures database in Notion, last edited 2026-08-20. This page is the row, rendered by the build; nothing on it is written by hand.