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Name: jessica a gancarski
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Does the universe ever end? If so, how large is it?

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Nobody knows - we do know it's at least something like 10 billion light-years in radius, because we can see stars out that far. Most people think the universe is infinite, at least in some sense, so that it really doesn't ever "end".

A Smith


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