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2 posted on
02/07/2024 12:51:51 PM PST by
MtnClimber
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To: MtnClimber
It doesn’t seem possible that galaxies could collide and have few stars do so. But when one realizes the distances, they are mind boggling. If our sun was the size of a green pea Pluto would be 100 yards away. The nearest star, Proxima Centauri, would be 125 miles away. The universe is mostly empty space
4 posted on
02/07/2024 12:59:05 PM PST by
Seruzawa
("The Political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence" - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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7 posted on
02/07/2024 1:35:24 PM PST by
NavyShoe
To: MtnClimber
It's only 60 million light years away...right down the street astronomically speaking.
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