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- Wed Dec 02, 2009 2:02 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: Dust Sculptures in the Rosette Nebula (APOD 2009 Dec. 2)
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Distances
In many of the APOD pictures, there will be a large gas cloud in the background with numerous foreground stars. The description for today says the cloud is 2500 light years away and 50 light years across. This does not seem right although it probably is correct. Are not the distances between stars 5...