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    Farthest photo ever taken, from nearly 4 billion miles away

    This December 2017 false-color image made available by NASA in February 2018 shows KBO (Kuiper Belt object) 2012 HZ84. This image is, for now, one of the farthest pictures from Earth ever captured by a spacecraft. It was made by the New Horizons at 3.79 billion miles from Earth.

    https://www.yahoo.com/news/farth…

    • It is not clear at all...
      4 billion miles is our "close neighborhood"
      The closest star, proxima centauri is 2.4925e+13 miles from us. (4.23 Light year)
      gonzalle
    • 1/10 Would not bangtank02
    • measuring stellar space distance in miles is asinine.plash
    • The record holder is the galaxy MACS0647-JD, which is about 13.3 billion light-years away.plash
    • The universe itself is only 13.7 billion years old, so this galaxy's light has been traveling toward us for almost the whole history of space and time.plash

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