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Flying Fokker said:

What is a light-year? - NASA Science

Light-year is the distance light travels in one year. Light zips through interstellar space at 186,000 miles (300,000 kilometers) per second and 5.88 trillion miles (9.46 trillion kilometers) per year. We use light-time to measure the vast distances of space. It’s the distance that light travels...

exoplanets.nasa.gov

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Evo1883 said:

Here's something else , alot of the stars you see In the sky you are seeing in the past ,or are no longer there

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Flying Fokker said:

That actually makes sense. Think g about it. By the time we see things, they’re history. We interpret them as being real time.

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Evo1883 said:

Here's something else , alot of the stars you see In the sky you are seeing in the past ,or are no longer there

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skybluetony176 said:

I tell you what I did find out and found interesting the other week. The artic and Antarctic circles aren’t fixed, they are constantly moving. Reason being that the earth’s axis isn’t fixed.

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Sky_Blue_Dreamer said:

I've always thought about if you were millions of light years away with an incredibly powerful telescope you'd be able to see dinosaurs roaming about.

Think of the mysteries we could solve if we could do that. Who was Jack the Ripper? Did Jesus actually exist? Where the fuck did I put my keys?

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