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> 3 Billion miles That is ridiculously close. For reference, the distance between sun and earth is about 150 Million miles.
by kumarvvr 8y ago
> 3 Billion miles
That is ridiculously close. For reference, the distance between sun and earth is about 150 Million miles.
- cscurmudgeon 8y agoThe reporter probably assumed light years are a measure of time and "fixed" it.
- brandmeyer 8y agoFrom context, I 'm pretty sure its light-years, not miles, and this was a typo. The curvature of the pulses in the frequency domain implies that there's lots of ionized gas between the us and the source. Lower frequencies are delayed relative to higher frequencies. Also, "mysteriously noisy galaxy 3 billion miles away" (emphasis mine).