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To: C19fan

Impressive we have telescopes capable of picking up such surface detail from a distance of 555 light years, even if Antares is the diameter of our inner Solar system! :-0


5 posted on 08/23/2017 9:07:06 AM PDT by Flick Lives (#CNNblackmail)
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To: Flick Lives

They use the orbit of the earth around the sun to get a much larger ‘aperture’. Still very, very impressive.


23 posted on 08/23/2017 12:47:02 PM PDT by Cruising Speed
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