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OpenStudy (anonymous):

How does light help us understand the enormous distances in space?

OpenStudy (anonymous):

We know, light has a awesome speed, but the light from far away stars take several hours to come to earth. But it's important say that, we have no idea about how great is our universe, and it's growing and expanding.

OpenStudy (anonymous):

thanks

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I hope has helped you!

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it did

OpenStudy (anonymous):

for astromical distances if we use the mile/km distances then it will we huge so we use an unit "LIGHT YEAR ( the distance that light can travel in one year)" .

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