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Old 11-December-2008, 01:56 AM
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Originally Posted by ToSeek View Post
Actually, the Andromeda Galaxy is "only" about 2.5 million light years away. So you'd have to go around 2000 times that distance in order to see the solar system forming - and then you'd probably need a telescope the size of the Andromeda Galaxy in order to get useful resolution at that distance.
Oh, pshaw! everyone knows you only need to go about 6,013 light-years out.
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