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    Touching the cosmic scale

    Feb 06, 2022 2 minutes
    by Morgan MacLeod

    cosmic scales as being nearly ungraspable. Recently, on a long drive, I travelled about one millionth the distance to the Sun, which of course is only the nearest star in our galaxy, which is one of many galaxies in our local cluster of galaxies, which is one of many such clusters in the

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