Damn it

[Sam Fisher]

950 Light Years.

The distance between Earth and Kepler-20, the star system where astronomers working on NASA's Kepler mission recently detected the first Earth-size planets found outside our solar system.

Note: It would take a space shuttle 36 million years to get there.

smithsonian.com


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[tsans]

Does that mean the Planet WAS there 95 Light Years ago?

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930, sorry

950, sorry squared

 

[gunslingingbird]

Does that mean the Planet WAS there 95 Light Years ago?

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930, sorry

950, sorry squared

A light-year is a unit of distance, not of time.

 

[mikexmoran]

A light-year is a unit of distance, not of time.

Distance light traverses over one mean light solar year. It is distance, but I guess you could interpert the speed that you would be traveling at and then figure out the time.

 

[gunslingingbird]

Distance light traverses over one mean light solar year. It is distance, but I guess you could interpert the speed that you would be traveling at and then figure out the time.

It's 10 trillion kilometers, or 6 trillion miles, according to Premium Link Upgrade .

 

[maturehunter89]

hehe yes yey

 

[STDiva]

A light-year is a unit of distance, not of time.

It's kind of time. What we see at 950 light years away isn't necessarily what is there at this exact moment. I think. Correct me if I'm wrong.

 

[Sam Fisher]

Too......

fucking.......

far.

 

[DJCowboy]

It's kind of time. What we see at 950 light years away isn't necessarily what is there at this exact moment. I think. Correct me if I'm wrong.

No, you're right. The further away something is, observing it is like looking back in time. Technically, even looking at someone waving at you from even a mile away is looking back in time (though that's 1/1000th of a second delay or something)

Quite a few stars that we see in the night sky are already dead and gone, but their light is just reaching our planet. I love this stuff

 

[tsans]

So the what is the speed of Dark? LOL

 

[luis1972]

Elementary Physics

 

[gunslingingbird]

Elementary Physics

Post count spam.

Oh, I'm sorry. I thought we were having a "state the obvious" contest.

 

[Red Spyder]

Yeah, but what is that in parsecs? :dunno:

Just to know how long it would take the Millenium Falcon to get there :tongue: