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The Webb Space Telescope’s profound data challenge...
It only takes ~8 minutes for light to reach us from the sun, so that seems wrong.
1.5 * 10^9 meters / (3.0 * 10^8 meters/second) = 5.0 seconds.
dorfsmay
on July 12, 2022
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Ah right, I got my units wrong! Good thing I'm not in middle school any more!
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1.5 * 10^9 meters / (3.0 * 10^8 meters/second) = 5.0 seconds.