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Old 01-November-2007, 02:51 PM
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Lol, yeah, that's kind of a big typo. That should be correct in a few billion year, though, right? I was talking in the future sense.

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Originally Posted by Robert Tulip View Post
That should be 2.5 million light years - with an order of magnitude error of only one million times maybe looking in your jeans in the wash wasn't such a bad idea.
Here in the Southern Hemisphere we only see M31 low on the northern horizon underneath Pisces for a brief time each year. It is quite a challenge to spot it. But then, in Sydney these days they call the Southern Cross the Southern Triangle because the fourth star is so hidden by light pollution.
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