New Planet Found
By Brian on May 25, 2005
BBC NEWS: Lens method finds far-off world:
Gould’s estimate of a 15,000-light-year distance to the new planet is an approximation, and he says he will need more data to refine the number. A light-year is the distance light travels in a year - about 9.5 trillion km (six trillion miles). (A trillion here is taken to be a million, million).
It’s 15,000 light years away. That’s 90,000,000,000,000,000 miles. And God made it all. Wow.




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