&gt; It isn&#x27;t wrong, its just not perfectly unambiguous.<p>Yes, it&#x27;s <i>perfectly</i> wrong, because those objects are not 13Gly away from us. A light-year really is defined as 300,000 km multiplied by whatever number of seconds there are in a year. The object is not at 13e9 x 300,000 x &lt;a lot of seconds&gt; kilometers from us if it took 13 billion years for the light to reach us.<p>&gt; It isn&#x27;t a surprise to anyone to point out that the source of something that was moving away from us 13Gy ago is now further away than it was.<p>If I wanted to give words the least charitable interpretation, I could point out that their motion has nothing to do with this -- they would still be farther than 13 Gly away from us even if they would not be moving away relative to the Earth :-).