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Now, 16.7 hours for light to get to the heliopause might seem like a long time, but consider the distance to the nearest star other than our Sun. It’s called Proxima Centauri and it's 4.2 light-years away. At this distance, kilometers and AU stop being useful, so astronomers may resort to using the parsec. A parsec is used to measure distances between stars and is equivalent to a distance of 3.26 light-years. As such, the Milky Way is 33,726 parsecs across, meaning it takes 110,000 light-years for light to cross our Galaxy. The Milky Way is a spiral galaxy, which is how the Star Wars galaxy is ...more
The Science of Star Wars: The Scientific Facts Behind the Force, Space Travel, and More!
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