Thread: Seriousness WOW! 800 Trillion Suns at 7 billion light years away
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Old 10-15-2010, 11:52 AM   #5
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Originally Posted by clarknova View Post
"WOW! 800 Trillion Suns at 7 billion light years away"

Well, at least there were... 7 billion years is a pretty long time ago.
Not a particularly long time in the lifetime of a galaxy. Our own Sun, for example, at about 5 billion years old, is only about half way through its lifetime as a main sequence star.
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