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• The galaxy is about 32 million light-years away from Earth and is in Pisces's constellation.
  — Monica Cull, Discover Magazine, 22 Dec. 2022
• The unlucky star wandered too close to the black hole, which is located roughly 250 million light-years away from Earth.
  — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 22 Dec. 2022
• James Webb has now taken a deeper look at an alien planet located 700 light-years away from our Sun.
  — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 23 Nov. 2022
• And clouds float within the hazy, hot atmosphere of a giant exoplanet more than 1,000 light-years away.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 16 July 2022
• In Joshua Tree, Homestead Modern offers similar high-end homes that are light-years away from the typical rental.
  — Hadley Meares, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Dec. 2022
• But the discovery of another life-sustaining planet light-years away gives hope to those who remain alive.
  — Breanna Bell, Variety, 10 Jan. 2023
• On Thursday, a team of astronomers revealed a much sharper photo of the black hole, named M87, which is located 55-million light-years away in the center of the Virgo galaxy cluster.
  — Ariana Garcia, Chron, 14 Apr. 2023
• The Cartwheel, located about 500 million light-years away from Earth in the constellation Sculptor in the southern sky, is a rather rare type of galaxy that astronomers call a ring galaxy.
  — Tereza Pultarova, Scientific American, 4 Aug. 2022
• The galaxy cluster lies nearly 9 billion light-years away in the constellation Draco.
  — Julia Musto, Fox News, 11 May 2023
• These latest images show galaxies from the farthest parts of the universe including one 9 billion light-years away, reports say.
  — Lee Roop | [e-mail], al, 3 Nov. 2022
• But the nebula itself is located around 1,500 light-years away from the much larger Orion Nebula.
  — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 1 Nov. 2022
• The audio has been edited to be heard by humans and amplified but NASA said the sound, which emanates from a galaxy cluster some 240 million light-years away, defied the misconception that there is no sound in space.
  — Adela Suliman, Washington Post, 20 Aug. 2022
• Instead, exoplanets can only be observed from light-years away via our telescopes.
  — Briley Lewis, Popular Science, 24 Jan. 2023
• Almost overnight, the discovery of gigantic black holes smashing into each other millions of light-years away from us was rendered nearly routine.
  — Yvette Cendes, Discover Magazine, 15 June 2022
• Explore out-of-this-world facts about the vast expanse of space, from glowing stars billions of light-years away to supermassive exploding supernovas to rockets thundering into the unknown.
  — Dean Regas, The Enquirer, 7 Dec. 2022
• Situated some 580 light-years away from Earth, the exoplanet is orbiting a red dwarf star in the Auriga constellation.
  — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 25 Oct. 2022
• And yet Bond’s regressive maleness thrived in films that grossed billions worldwide, while the Beatles became secular saints, beloved and immortal, light-years away from the insurrectionists of 1962.
  — Marc Weingarten, Los Angeles Times, 7 Feb. 2023
• Though the gas giant, located around 355 light-years away from Earth, likely cannot support alien life, the observations demonstrated how the telescope could be used to search for potentially habitable planets elsewhere in the universe.
  — Denise Chow, NBC News, 30 Dec. 2022
• Other worlds Strong radio signals detected 12 light-years away suggest that an exoplanet might have a magnetic field — and perhaps even an atmosphere.
  — Katie Hunt, CNN, 8 Apr. 2023
• For example, the nearby nebula Barnard 68 is a dark clot of cold gas and dust—tiny grains of silicates (rocky material) and complex carbon molecules similar to soot—relatively close to us in space, only a few hundred light-years away.
  — Philip Plait, Scientific American, 24 Apr. 2023
• For one thing, the Giant Magellan instruments were being prioritized for studying exoplanets, and would be capable of detecting rocky, Earthlike planets as far as 30 light-years away.
  — Dennis Overbye Marcos Zegers, New York Times, 18 Apr. 2023

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024