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To: doorgunner69

“How far apart are those big suckers?”

You’re probably not asking what I’m thinking. What I’m thinking is what’s the scale of the image in minutes or degrees of arc. I couldn’t find that.


16 posted on 08/30/2020 5:52:49 PM PDT by cymbeline
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To: cymbeline

This description gives the distance. Also describes the width in light years though it’s not exactly the same picture (same nebula).

https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap081009.html


17 posted on 08/30/2020 6:16:58 PM PDT by curious7
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