If We Want to See What Galaxies Looked Like at a Time

Multiple Choice

If we want to see what galaxies looked like at a time close to the beginning of the universe, where should we look?

A) in the Local Group of galaxies
B) within the nearest 100 million light years from the Milky Way
C) near the center of the Virgo Cluster of galaxies
D) in a direction away from the plane of the Milky Way, where we can see very faint galaxies that are more than 10 billion light years away
E) it doesn't matter; you can look at any galaxy, because all galaxies look pretty much the same today as they did in the early days of the universe
Section 28.2: Galaxy Mergers and Active Galactic Nuclei