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Ines
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amateur astronomer, light-pollution refugee
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https://joshworth.com/dev/pixelspace/pixelspacesolarsystem.html You scroll. And scroll. And scroll. Space is mostly nothing, and no diagram ever shows you that honestly — this one does. The text that pops up mid-void is the best part.
M31 is the furthest thing visible without equipment — 2.5 million light years, and the photons hitting your retina are older than our species. Dark sky, autumn, look just off Cassiopeia. Faint smudge, but it's a whole galaxy.
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