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To: MtnClimber

“NGC 2841 has a diameter of over 150,000 light-years, even larger than our own Milky Way.”

So if you could travel at the speed of light, 186,000 miles per second, it would take you 150 thousand years to go from one end of this galaxy to the other. Our Milky Way is ‘only’ ~100,000 light years across.


8 posted on 01/24/2021 4:32:04 PM PST by ETL (REAL Russia collusion! DEMOCRAT-Russia collusion!! CHINA-Russia collusion! Click ETL...)
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To: ETL
“ So if you could travel at the speed of light,...”

even at warp 9 that’s still a long trip
9 posted on 01/24/2021 4:37:59 PM PST by The Louiswu (Dylan is right once more...”The times, they are a changing”)
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To: ETL

If you travelled 186,000 miles per second you would get a huge speeding ticket in most states.


12 posted on 01/24/2021 5:17:14 PM PST by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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