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To: aimhigh

The galaxy in the foreground is 470 billion miles closer to Hubble


5 posted on 02/08/2022 10:16:09 AM PST by bert ( (KE. NP. N.C. +12) Promoting Afro Heritage diversity will destroy the democrats)
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To: bert

470 billion miles is not very much in astronomical terms—one light-year is about 6 trillion miles. The far side of the large galaxy is probably tens of thousands of light-years further away than the closer side.


12 posted on 02/08/2022 10:40:11 AM PST by Verginius Rufus
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To: bert
The galaxy in the foreground is 470 billion miles closer to Hubble

Might take a while - I've only got a weekend to travel...

24 posted on 02/08/2022 11:30:58 AM PST by COBOL2Java (Fauci is a despicable little turd)
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