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“a sprawling new galaxy cluster hiding in plain sight. The cluster, which sits a mere 2.4 billion light years from Earth”

In case you didn’t know, ONE light year, the distance light travels in a year, at its speed of 186,000 miles per second, works out to about 5.9 TRILLION miles.


2 posted on 08/18/2018 5:45:40 PM PDT by ETL (Obama-Hillary, REAL Russia collusion! Uranium-One Deal, Missile Defense, Iran Deal, Nukes: Click ETL)
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That’s too many 0’s for my mind to grasp.


14 posted on 08/18/2018 8:16:49 PM PDT by metmom ( ...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith......)
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Yeah. You can round it out to 6. In any event it’s a hell of a long way.


20 posted on 08/19/2018 3:29:10 AM PDT by jmacusa (Made it Ma, top of the world!'')
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Accretionist ping


26 posted on 08/19/2018 7:00:11 AM PDT by bert ((K.E. N.P. N.C. +12) Sanctuary is Sedition)
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...MIT graduate student Taweewat Somboonpanyakul...


Now that is quite a name.


29 posted on 08/19/2018 5:43:15 PM PDT by Yardstick
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