Astronomical Distance Debates
Comments focus on questioning, correcting, and contextualizing the distances of astronomical objects or events, primarily using light-years and comparing them to familiar scales like nearby stars, Pluto, or the Milky Way.
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Wikipedia says 32 Mly, maybe needs an update?
No it's 12 BILLION light years away and its enough to supply trillions of earth lille planets
The earth.com article mentions 120 light-years from Earth.
Only 1,050,000,000,000,000 kilometers away...
Came here to post :-) Considering the nearest star is about 4 light years away it doesn't seem that impressive.
Just About 1200 times longer and it approached the same distance as our nearest star at 4 ly
Anything beyond ~50 light years is out of range.
It's like light-years.https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Light-year
Already 140,000mi from Earth? Impressive!
> about 26000 light years awayabout makes this suggestion completely impractical