• @Cyclist
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    1532 months ago

    Amateur. In a dark location, on a clear night, I can see the Andromeda Galaxy, 2.3 million light years away.

    • Davel23
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      762 months ago

      Oh yeah, well I can see your mom. 2.3 million light years away. Because she’s fat.

    • teft
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      162 months ago

      Triangulum Galaxy is a smidge farther away (~2.7Mly) and also naked eye visible with the right sky conditions and good eyes.

      • comador
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        32 months ago

        Looks like a smudge until you unfocus your eyes anyway.

      • @[email protected]
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        22 months ago

        I dont think 400000 times light can travel in a year of difference is “slightly further away”

        • teft
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          12 months ago

          What’s a few hundred thousand light years between friends?

    • go $fsck yourself
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      152 months ago

      But since the sun is 93 millions miles away it’s further because the number is bigger

      • @HereIAm
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        22 months ago

        No you see some infinites are bigger than other. So light year is basically a larger infinity than millions. There’s a YouTube video about, look it up 👍

        /s (you never know these days)

    • Midnight Wolf
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      72 months ago

      Smh you say on a dark place but then you say light years. If the whole year is light then how do you expect anyone to see if it has to be dark?

      • @Cyclist
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        11 month ago

        It’s a timey-whimey thing.

    • @Akasazh
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      -32 months ago

      You’re not really seeing it, though, your seeing it’s distant past

      • @Shard
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        82 months ago

        If you’re going down that road, you’re never seeing anything in its present form because even for an object a meter in front of you, all you’re really seeing is the object as it existed nano seconds in the past. Hows is a nano second in the past different from years in the past?