• @[email protected]
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    449 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

    🤔

      • FaceDeer
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        159 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).

        • @[email protected]
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          79 months ago

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

          • @[email protected]
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            29 months ago

            You might think it’s a long way down the street to the chemists, bur that’s just peanuts to space

        • @[email protected]OP
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          59 months ago

          I guess you could argue it’s many many millions of miles, doesn’t have to exclude the total being in the billions, trillions or beyond.

          Though now I’m trying to think if there is any unit of measurement that it would be literal millions of away. Light seconds maybe?

          • FaceDeer
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            39 months ago

            There’s ~31 million seconds in a year, so that’s getting closer.

            • @[email protected]OP
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              59 months ago

              Hmm so that overshoots a little into billions of light seconds.

              I’ve got it: millions of light minutes away! (70ish million if my math is right)