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The light year was not discovered. It was made up, by people who kept coming up
with distances like [ 25,866,280,000,000 miles ] in their work, and soon realized that
they were going to need something bigger than a mile, so they invented the light-year.
What else can I help you with?
How far away is the new planet that was discovered with water?
The new planet that was discovered with water is around 110 light-years away from Earth.
How many light years between Kepler and Earth?
If you mean the star Kepler-11, it is at a distance of about 2000 light-years.
What is the furthest distance discovered into space by telescope?
13.7 billion light years is as we can see. This is because the light is still traveling to us and we are yet to see it.
Who discovered properties of light?
Sir W. Crookes discovered the Properties of Light in 1879.
Who discovered the ultraviolet light?
UV Light was discovered by Johann Wilhelm Ritter, in 1801
An extraterrestrial being in galaxy B discovered galaxy A was 8 billion light years away If galaxy B is approximately 13.5 billion years old when did galaxy A emit the light that ET observes?
8 billion years ago.
What is the neighbouring galaxy to earth?
Sagittarius Dwarf, discovered in 1994, mare than 70,000 light years away from earth.
Has an earth like planet been discovered else where in the universe?
Yes, there was a planet with water discovered. Though it is 2-3 billion light years away and is nearly impossible to reach.
Did Jesus have light bulbs?
No. This was well before electricity was discovered. Jesus lived 2,000 years ago. Lightbulbs have been around for less than 150 years.
When were peppers first discovered?
Peppers were discovered about 6,000 years ago.
Who was the scientist who discovered the Andromeda Nebula and that it was actually over 2 million light years away?
I doubt it was the same person who did both.
Was a pulsar discovered near the sun?
No, a pulsar has not been discovered near the sun. Pulsars are neutron stars that emit beams of radiation that can be detected by astronomers, but they are typically found in distant regions of our galaxy.
