• Cyclist@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

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

    • teft@lemmy.world
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      1 month ago

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

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        1 month 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)

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      1 month 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?

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        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?