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3C 273's visible jet is "~200 kly (60 kpc) long".[0] There's even a Hubble image.[1] Our galaxy is about 150-200 kly in diameter.[2] And the Large Magellanic Cl
by mirimir 7y ago
3C 273's visible jet is "~200 kly (60 kpc) long".[0] There's even a Hubble image.[1] Our galaxy is about 150-200 kly in diameter.[2] And the Large Magellanic Cloud is ~163 kly away.[3] So yeah.
0) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3C_273 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3C_273
1) https://www.nasa.gov/content/goddard/nasas-hubble-gets-the-best-image-of-bright-quasar-3c-273/ https://www.nasa.gov/content/goddard/nasas-hubble-gets-the-b...
2) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milky_Way https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milky_Way
3) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Large_Magellanic_Cloud https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Large_Magellanic_Cloud