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  • Dad explained light-years and black holes and quasars and told us about the special qualities of Betelgeuse, Rigel, and Venus.†  (source)
  • He hadn't meant to sound belittling, and yet Sophie Neveu was light-years out of her league.†  (source)
  • "Yeah," he said, "but all the black holes are about two million light-years away from Earth."†  (source)
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  • His voice seemed to come from light-years away.†  (source)
  • And even to say "southern heaven" is to try to familiarize terrific convulsions of fire in the million light-year distances (and why, from space to space, does the occupancy have to be by fire?)†  (source)
  • To see Herald Square on television made me feel as if I were stranded millions of light-years from Earth and picking up signals from the early days of radio, announcer voices and audience applause from a vanished civilization.†  (source)
  • The Ouster Hawking wake had been noticed by Hegemony monitoring stations but was misinterpreted as merely another swarm migration which would pass no closer than half a light-year to the Bressian system.†  (source)
  • Our galaxy is a huge disk of stars millions of light-years across, and the solar system is somewhere near the outside edge of the disk.†  (source)
  • This was the theory of "contact as symbol" proposed by sociologist Bill Mathers of RAND Corporation in his book, The 100,000-Light-Year Iron Curtain: SETI Sociology.†  (source)
  • He dropped his hand on my shoulder as I squinted through the lens at the five stars burning over fifty light-years from the spot on which we stood.†  (source)
  • A light-year is nearly ten trillion kilometers.†  (source)
  • My father's stories had given me a glittering image of the city of Krakow, three hundred fifty miles and light-years removed from the life I knew in Narewka.†  (source)
  • The distances are so great that we measure them in light-minutes and light-years.†  (source)
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