Once a galaxy has moved beyond or "light cone", it's lost forever: you won't see it again even if you try moving towards it at light speed for all eternity.
Once a galaxy has moved beyond or "light cone", it's lost forever: you won't see it again even if you try moving towards it at light speed for all eternity.
Cf the last paragraph of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hubble_volume
Observations indicate that the expansion of the universe is accelerating, and the Hubble constant is thought to be decreasing. Thus, sources of light outside the Hubble horizon but inside the cosmological event horizon can eventually reach us. A fairly counter-intuitive result is that photons we observe from the first ~5 billion years of the universe come from regions that are, and always have been, receding from us at superluminal speeds.
The next episode, "How Far Beyond Earth Could Humanity Spread?" [2] might also be interesting.