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  • A star 28 billion light years away from earth

    From RonO@21:1/5 to All on Sun Aug 13 07:41:44 2023
    https://www.cnn.com/2023/08/11/world/webb-telescope-earendel-distant-star-scn/index.html

    Apparently the star appears to be 12.9 billion light years away from
    earth in the sense that the light is 12.9 billion years old that is
    currently reaching us, but it is thought that with the expansion of the universe that the star is actually 28 billion light years from earth at
    this time.

    Ron Okimoto

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  • From JTEM is my hero@21:1/5 to RonO on Wed Aug 16 18:14:24 2023
    RonO wrote:

    https://www.cnn.com/2023/08/11/world/webb-telescope-earendel-distant-star-scn/index.html

    Apparently the star appears to be 12.9 billion light years away from
    earth in the sense that the light is 12.9 billion years old that is
    currently reaching us, but it is thought that with the expansion of the universe that the star is actually 28 billion light years from earth at
    this time.

    The first time I answered I pointed out that this sun is likely long dead.

    I mean, you'd think it was pretty large, us being able to single it out near
    13 billion light years distant... could even have died in its first billion years!

    The temporal divide in space is as difficult to comprehend and account for
    as is the vast distances...




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