fossilesque to AstronomyEnglish · 1 год назадAstronomers discover six planets orbiting a nearby sun-like starwww.washingtonpost.comexternal-linkmessage-square9fedilinkarrow-up131arrow-down10
arrow-up131arrow-down1external-linkAstronomers discover six planets orbiting a nearby sun-like starwww.washingtonpost.comfossilesque to AstronomyEnglish · 1 год назадmessage-square9fedilink
minus-squarebtaf45@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 год назад100 ly years is actually kind of far. It is farther than most of our named stars. I wouldn’t consider it ‘nearby’.
minus-squarePons_Aelius@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 год назад In space that is nearby. That was my point, Human scale vs astrophysical scale.
minus-squarebtaf45@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 год назад100 ly is not in our local intersteller neighborhood. It is 3x farther than even Arcturus.
minus-squarePons_Aelius@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 год назад 100 ly is not in our local intersteller neighborhood. Good thing I never said it was. In space that is nearby. Human scale vs astrophysical scale.
100 ly years is actually kind of far. It is farther than most of our named stars. I wouldn’t consider it ‘nearby’.
That was my point, Human scale vs astrophysical scale.
100 ly is not in our local intersteller neighborhood. It is 3x farther than even Arcturus.
Good thing I never said it was.