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To: blam

420 trillion times brighter? Nah. 400 trillion times, at most.


6 posted on 07/29/2016 3:27:37 PM PDT by Larry Lucido
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To: Larry Lucido

You joke, but what’s the measurement error on something like this?

My rough calculations are that the sun has an apparent brightness 1.6 x 10^15 times larger than the quasar, with the quasar having an absolute brightness 4.2 x 10^14 times larger than the sun.


35 posted on 07/29/2016 4:18:40 PM PDT by scrabblehack
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