re: No matter what direction we point a telescope, we always look toward the Big Bang - why?

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My understanding is that the "big bang" marks the beginning of the expansion of space outward from a single point

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The hardest thing to conceptualize about the big bang is that it happened everywhere all at once. It's hard to comprehend the size and scale of it when we try to fit it in the context of explosions we observe on earth.