distant
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Ring in the New Year with the "Champagne Cluster," a distant galaxy cluster featured in a new image that combines data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and optical telescopes.
From Science Daily
Shortly after midnight on New Year’s Day, a man watched flames spread in the distant hills and called 911.
From Los Angeles Times
Measuring how time behaves on distant worlds provides new tests of Einstein's theories of special and general relativity.
From Science Daily
Mr. Brown notes that historians routinely place Roosevelt fourth among presidential greats, after Abraham Lincoln, George Washington and TR’s distant relative Franklin Roosevelt.
Measurements show that this distant supernova closely matches the brightness and spectral features of SN 1998bw, a well known supernova linked to a gamma ray burst that exploded much closer to Earth.
From Science Daily
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