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scupking83 t1_itipnr6 wrote

Just think how many civilizations are looking back at us in that picture!

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Riegel_Haribo OP t1_itkcjjj wrote

Far fewer than one might imagine. We have a lookback time over 10 billion years in those that are beyond the galactic cluster, less time to evolve from the complex elements of multiple generations of starstuff. They are looking at a Milky Way billions of years before the Earth formed.

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