Most distant object seen with naked eye?

Answer 1

2009: A GRB gamma ray burst, dubbed GRB 090423, was detected 13.1 billion light years away. It was probably a supernova explosion, leaving behind one of the first black holes.

2004: IOK-1 is the furthest known galaxy at 12.9 billion light years away.

Answer 2

The most distant object visible to the naked eye is the Andromeda Galaxy, which is approximately 2.5 million light-years away from Earth. It appears as a faint and blurry object in the night sky under dark, clear conditions.

Answer 3

The furthest celestial body from Earth are quasars. Scientists currently don't know what quasars are, but they think they are the cores of bright galaxies. They are known to be extremely bright and hot.

Answer 4

A galaxy has been detected 13 billion light years from us - possibly the furthest know object.

The "farthest thing" from Earth is really a vague question. The Universe is thousands of millions of light years long 1 light year=5,878,625,373,183.61 miles!!!!

Answer 5

The Andromeda Galaxy at about 2 million light years can be seen with the naked eye. M81 at about 12 million light years can just barely be seen by experienced observers under excellent conditions.

Answer 6

A gigantic stellar explosion recently shattered the record for the furthest object visible with the naked eye - halfway across the known universe.

On the 19th of March 2008 a gamma ray burst at a distance of 7.5 billion light years was detected by NASA's Swift satellite.

For a brief time this dim (at this distance) afterglow in the constellation Boötes could have been observed by the naked eye as it was recorded to have reached visual magnitudes of between 5 and 6.

The burst is named GRB 080319B, the second of a record four bursts that Swift detected for one day.

The optical afterglow was 2.5 million times more luminous than the most luminous supernova, or stellar explosion, ever recorded, scientists said. That would make it the most intrinsically bright object ever observed by humans. Apparently the most distant previous object that could have been seen by the naked eye is the nearby galaxy M33, a relatively short 2.9 million light-years from Earth.

The actual explosion occurred at a time when the universe was less than half its current age and Earth had yet to form.

This record could of course change in time as newer discoveries are constantly made.

Coincidentally, on the same day acclaimed science-fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke died.

Source:http://www.world-science.net/othernews/080320_grb.htm

Answer 7

The most distant object detected until now is between 13 and 14 billion light years

from us. But that limit only arises because there's a limit to the sensitivity of our

present astronomical instruments. No end to the universe has been detected,

and nobody has any idea how much farther it keeps going past that distance.

Answer 8

The Andromeda Galaxy, is more than 220,000 light-years across and lies 2.5 million light-years away. On a clear, dark night, the galaxy is faintly visible as a misty patch to the naked eye.

Answer 9

A star is probably the most distant object in the universe.

The most distant "seen" object is a quasar.

Answer 10

For now, it's an galaxy called "UDFJ-39546284" which founded in the Hubble's ultra deep field.