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To: ~digs who wrote (29)	4/19/2001 12:11:44 AM
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Cool Fact of the Day: Longest Distance The longest unit of distance is the "Hubble Length," which is the radius of the observable universe. That's about 10-15 billion light years. This unit of length was named after Edwin Hubble, an astronomer who discovered that the universe appears to be expanding. A light year is the distance light travels in a year, which is about 5,866,000,000,000 miles, or 5.9 trillion miles. The Hubble Length is (minimum) ten billion times that, or 59 sextillion miles! (American definitions for billion, trillion, and sextillion are being used here.) Cosmologists (scientists who study the history of the universe) suspect that the universe may go on far beyond the edge of what we can see. No one knows just how big it really is. More about bigness and speed in the universe: suite101.com Great article about the history of everything: umich.edu