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fromThe Atlantic
2 weeks ago

Day 23 of the 2025 Space Telescope Advent Calendar: Distance and Perspective

Three galaxies appearing close together are actually separated by hundreds of millions of light-years, with NGC 1356 at 550 million and LEDA 95415 at 840 million light-years.
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fromBig Think
4 months ago

See the whole Universe at once in this unique logarithmic view

Logarithmic distance scales reveal how planetary, stellar, galactic, and cosmic‑web structures relate across enormous distances.
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