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- Path: sparky!uunet!gatech!psuvax1!psuvm!lxs117
- Organization: Penn State University
- Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 14:56:26 EDT
- From: <LXS117@psuvm.psu.edu>
- Message-ID: <92211.145626LXS117@psuvm.psu.edu>
- Newsgroups: sci.astro
- Subject: An Observation Question.
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- I have a question about what we really see when we
- look at the stars. I know, for example that if you are
- looking at the bright star Vega in the constellation
- Lyra, you are seeing light which has traveled 26 light
- years to earth. However, how far are we actually seeing?
- What is our real range of vision?
- Thanks for enlightening me!
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- Lizabeth at PSU
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