• helenslunch@feddit.nl
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    9 months ago

    This rocky planet is in another solar system 137 light-years away

    From millions of light-years away, we can only see this distant world as a dark dot

    🤔

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        9 months ago

        Which is funny because that would have been even more inaccurate. “Millions of light years” is off by a factor of 15,000 or more. “Millions of miles” is off by a factor of 400,000,000 or more (2 million miles is 0.00000034 light years).

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          9 months ago

          Reading your comment is the most I have ever felt the “wow, space is incomprehensibly large” feeling.