2622: "Angular Diameter Turnaround"

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2622: "Angular Diameter Turnaround"

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Title text: Thank you to Katie Mack for teaching me about this effect, and to Janelle Shane for describing redshifts as 'like galaxies sinking into a pool of dilute blood,' which is how I'll see them from now on.

Imagine the volume of a galaxy-sized phone's ringtone.
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Is this the Samsung Galaxy?
ratammer wrote: Fri May 20, 2022 10:41 pmImagine the volume of a galaxy-sized phone's ringtone.
It would be silent. There's no sound in space.
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ratammer wrote: Thu Sep 09, 2021 4:56 pm Hoping to find something quotable on this new forum!
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