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Hubble sharpens measurement of distance to ancient cluster

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Re: 7800 Light Years?!

The galaxy itself contains 100 million stars,

It's 100,000 light years side to side,

It bulges in the middle, 16,000 light years thick,

But out by us it's just 3,000 light years wide,

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Thanks to Monty Python.

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