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655 points mooreds | 3 comments | 21 Oct 24 20:15 UTC | HN request time: 0.293s | source
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lefrenchy ◴[22 Oct 24 02:20 UTC] No.41910562[source]▶
It's just so crazy to me to see a galaxy 420 million light years away. That is so much time for what we're seeing to have changed. I presume life can form within that window given the right conditions, so to some degree it just feels a bit sad that the distance is so great that we can't actually see what may exist in this moment that far away
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1. 0xDEAFBEAD ◴[22 Oct 24 06:50 UTC] No.41911840[source]▶
It might be possible to build a powerful telescope to see life on planets that are closer to us, though: https://www.palladiummag.com/2024/10/18/its-time-to-build-th...
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2. Sander_Marechal ◴[22 Oct 24 07:40 UTC] No.41912086[source]▶
Ohh I love the idea of a massive telescope that's just compromised of thousands of individual satellites!
3. Tepix ◴[22 Oct 24 08:43 UTC] No.41912376[source]▶
Or go for the gravitational lens provided by our sun (580 AU out).