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Pixel:

What is the largest unit of measurement when it comes to astronomy?

ILovePuppiesLol:

im thinking the centimeter

ILovePuppiesLol:

or the light year, both are pretty similar

Pixel:

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563blackghost:

It would be gigaparsecs o-o its nearly the measure of the earth to the closest star system which is nearly 4.7 light years >.>

ILovePuppiesLol:

ASTRONOMICAL UNITS

ILovePuppiesLol:

or the inch

ILovePuppiesLol:

the distance from the Earth to the sun is about 8.9 inches

563blackghost:

oh wait no excuse me, that is wrong... One Gpc is actually 3.26 billion light years >.> so sorry.

563blackghost:

So if you measure about 30 Gpc then it will equal to be the measurment of the `observable universe`.

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