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Hubble spies rare cosmic tadpole galaxy

richardcox13
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Re: but no indication how far away it is?

If you look at section 2 of the paper it says 24.5 Mpc.

For this purpose I'll round that to 25 Mpc. Which is 7.714e+23m.

IIRC one linguine is 15cm so that's 5.14e24 linguine, so – just so I can use the prefix – 5.1 Yottalinguine.

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