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A comment on The Webb Space Telescope’s profound data challenges. Parent comment

Re:The Webb Space Telescope’s profound data challenges by sp332 on Tuesday July 12, 2022 @09:10AM (#32069337)
It only takes ~8 minutes for light to reach us from the sun, so that seems wrong.

1.5 * 10^9 meters / (3.0 * 10^8 meters/second) = 5.0 seconds.

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Re:The Webb Space Telescope’s profound data challenges by dorfsmay on Tuesday July 12, 2022 @09:15AM (#32069444)
Ah right, I got my units wrong! Good thing I'm not in middle school any more!
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