The Heavens Make A Long Highway
From Mount Palomar in California comes news that photographs taken with the aid of the new 200inch reflector telescope have revealed objects, shown only as pin-points of light, which are a thousand million light--years distant, twice as far as any telescope has previously reached out.
The number of miles represented by one light-year is 5,876,068,880,800. This is roughly equal to the number of letters in 1,600,000 copies of the Bible.
The miles represented in the distance revealed by this latest truimph of man’s ingenuity is one thousand million times as many!
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 14, Issue 27, 19 August 1949, Page 6
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97The Heavens Make A Long Highway Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 14, Issue 27, 19 August 1949, Page 6
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