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Macro world

the vast expanse

The astronomical unit (Earth-Sun distance, about 150 million kilometers) is a yardstick that conveys some idea of cosmic distances reaching far beyond the dimension of the solar system. Light from the most distant detected galaxies has traveled about 13 billon years, covering the unimaginable distance of thousand trillion astronomic units [1] .

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