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Boffins hand in their homework on Voyager 2's first readings from beyond Solar System

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Re: Empty space is not that empty

A quick JFGI suggests the number of atoms per m^3 is roughly 10. 1e2 rather than 1e6 per m^2.

So you over by a factor of 1000 in the million year calculation, so it should be about right for the billion year calculation.

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