<div dir="auto">My guess:  stars, including the Sun, are constantly producing and emitting new photons.  This happens as a result of fusion and other processes.<br><br><div data-smartmail="gmail_signature">---<br>Frank C. Wimberly<br>140 Calle Ojo Feliz, <br>Santa Fe, NM 87505<br><br>505 670-9918<br>Santa Fe, NM</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Dec 28, 2022, 9:21 AM Owen Densmore <<a href="mailto:owen@backspaces.net">owen@backspaces.net</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#000000">In aj NYTimes article:</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#000000"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/27/science/astronomy-webb-telescope.html" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/27/science/astronomy-webb-telescope.html</a><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#000000">..there is the usual discussion on "seeing back to the first several millennia".<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#000000"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#000000">But, and be kind, why haven't these photons already sped past us? I suppose it is because the exanssion is uniformly everywhere, we just kept ahead of them? That seems unlikely given the expansion is slower than light.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#000000"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#000000">    -- Owen</div></div>
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