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Originally Posted by Lady Jane
Earendel a.k.a WHL0137-LS is located 28 billion light years away and was discovered in 2022 by Hubbell.
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1 Light Year ≈ 5,878,625,373,184 Miles
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When I was a kid I used to image our glass topped patio table was the Milky Way galaxy and the table top was made of grains of sand and one grain of sand was a star in the galaxy.
Then, I imagined that each person in the world had a similar patio table at their house around the world, representing each of the other galaxies in the universe. At the time, there was about 3 billion people in the world so my wild imagination would have estimated 3 billion galaxies, one for each person in my attempt to fathom it all. So even if I was right, if one grain of sand on each of these 3 billion tables is a star, that's a huge amount of stars, I thought at the time. When my kids were growing up, I used to tell them about how I looked at the size of the universe, as silly as my model was.
Now we learn (true or not) that they think there are 2 trillion galaxies, not the 3 billion I'd predicted as a kid. So, my guess too small by over 600 fold.
Sorry for the rambling. I'll go to bed now and thank my lucky stars that I'm still here and still able to remember when I was a kid!
Good night!