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General 1w
its so weird that most of the stars in the sky are dead and we're just now seeing their light
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Anonymous 1w

I ADORE this fact. It’s so cool but also so strange. Makes it feel distant

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Anonymous 1w

The stars you can see with the naked eye are actually pretty close to earth and most are either still alive or white dwarfs

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Anonymous 6d

Most are still alive since the vast majority you can see aren’t billions of light years away but only a few thousand

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 1w

I 100% agree

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 6d

the closest stars to us are still 40 trillion kilometers (24,854,800,000,000 miles) away

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 6d

Very close in cosmic terms

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