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slfnflctd ◴[] No.42212836[source]
Not a lot of information, just the photo and a paragraph blurb beneath it.

What I'm wondering is why the alleged "first" picture of this kind is of a star 160,000 light years away. There are hundreds of millions of stars in that distance range from us. I suppose there may be a reasonable explanation having to do with optimal visibility or something, but my intuition is completely failing here.

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1. lordnacho ◴[] No.42212990[source]
I guess it means "discernible single star outside our galaxy", because of course we can see distant galaxies.