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- Wed Aug 04, 2021 5:38 am
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: EHT Resolves Central Jet from Black... (2021 Aug 04)
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Re: APOD: EHT Resolves Central Jet from Black... (2021 Aug 04)
I get really tired of descriptions of intergalactic objects such as Centaurus A (which is 13.05million light years away) as being 'nearby'. 13 million lights is not in any human sense of the word, 'nearby'. Sure, in a galactic relativistic sense its closer than most but use of this kind of relativis...