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She was immersed in a world light years away from her repressed East Coast background.

"From my point of view the company is now light years away from those early days, " notes Lockyer .

About 5 light-years long and a mere 800 light-years away, the Pencil Nebula is only a small part of the Vela supernova remnant.

But a closer look revealed that they were billions of light-years away, far beyond the confines of our galaxy.

The time from the hundreds of millions of light years away from up here, either early or late in the day for a cup of tea in the fold.

The star at the centre of the system in question is 55 Cancri A, a yellow dwarf similar to the sun that lies 40 light years away.

The coldest known place in the universe is the Boomerang Nebula, 5, 000 light years away from us in the constellation Centaurus.

The discovery was made on a Jupiter-size planet 63 light years away from Earth that is too hot for life, and is all gas and liquid.

The survey is sensitive to AGN up to 650 million light-years away and has uncovered dozens of previously unrecognized systems.

Located a "mere" 300 million light-years away, these colliding galaxies nicknamed The Mice will eventually merge into a single giant galaxy.

More than 9, 000 light-years away from Earth, stars form within the star cluster NGC 281, colloquially known as the "Pacman Nebula. "

They collected images of the magnetic field generated by one of the stars in the Algol system, located about 93 light-years away.

Also known as Abell 21, this Medusa is an old planetary nebula some 1, 500 light-years away in the constellation Gemini.

They are, well, light years away from the simple incandescent bulbs the Philips brothers made when they started the business back in 1891.

The mirror, in this case, is a vast blob of gas about 70, 000 light-years away from the center of a spiral galaxy, where the quasar resides.

Well, we may get to test the idea. Because astronomers have located a world that could be a bit like Earth some 36 light-years away.

Such encounters between dwarf galaxies are normally seen billions of light-years away and therefore occurred billions of years ago.

Most supernovas spotted at the Palomar Observatory are around 1 billion light-years away, far too distant to be seen by amateurs.

All it takes is for a supernova to go off a few light years away, and we'll all be dead!

Those stellar explosions can have lethal effects on planets orbiting stars even tens of light-years away.

The bright reddish object at upper right is the center of our galaxy, residing 100 light-years away from the Arches cluster.

They used it to detect methane in the atmosphere of a planet nearly 63 light-years away.

It will also gather information from cosmic radiation sources on stars and galaxies millions of light years away.

The bullet cluster is more than three thousand million light years away. It formed in the last one hundred million years.

The Nebula's glowing gas surrounds hot young stars at the edge of an immense interstellar molecular cloud only 1500 light-years away.

Few cosmic vistas excite the imagination like the Orion Nebula, an immense stellar nursery some 1, 500 light-years away.

The bursts came from the explosions of distant, super-massive stars that were billions of light years away.

The system is just nine light years away, a mere stone's throw in astronomical terms.

Fifth, here is the Hourglass Nebula located 8000 light years away, a beautiful nebula with a narrowing in its central part.

In August, a team from Switzerland reported that another planet called HD 85512b and 36 light years away seemed to be habitable.

As he spied the M82 galaxy, 12m light-years away, one central banker remarked: "That puts our problems into perspective. "

Astronormers discovered quasars-- extremely bright beacons billions of light-years away.

NGC 2392 lies about 5000 light-years away and is visible with a small telescope in the constellation of Gemini.

It was later found to be a bigger-than-expected supernova remnant, 8, 000 light years away.

The planet lives 2200 light-years away inside the Helmi stream, a ring of ancient stars that cuts through the plane of the Milky Way.

This group of galaxies, known as Arp 194 is 600 million light years away from Earth in the constellation Cepheus .

For one thing, it's about 20 light-years away, making it one of the closest exoplanets yet discovered [source: Lemonick].

That's the upshot of a new study of M33, a nearby spiral galaxy located 2. 8 million light-years away in the constellation Triangulum.

Chandra detects and images X-ray sources that are billions of light years away.

Moreover, 2020 is light-years away in political terms, and with 21% unemployment Spain's more urgent need is for growth.

Now we have images of galaxies millions of light years away from Earth.

The supernova remnant is within the plane of our Milky Way Galaxy and is 2, 600 light-years away.

The cluster of galaxies Abell 2218 is itself about three billion light-years away in the northern constellation of the Dragon (Draco).

The intriguing Bubble Nebula lies a mere 11000 light-years away toward the boastful constellation Cassiopeia .

For comparison, the closest star to the Sun is over 4 light-years away.

As a reasonable guess, they might, on an average, be 100 light years away.

It came from the direction of Sagittarius; the nearest star in that direction is 220 light years away.

On average, Virgo Cluster galaxies are measured to be about 48 million light-years away.

The remaining images are believed to be the first objects in space, 13 billion light years away.

This "culture" was light years away from Dad's traditional upbringing in the wadis of Jordan.

This allowed the host star to be identified as a red dwarf star located 19, 000 light-years away.

Righteous punishment is a thousand light years away from revenge.

The civilisations represented by the Federation are light years away from you, yet are easily in touch because of inter-dimensional travel.

Located 54 light-years away, the exoplanet is yet another member of the super-Earth club [source: NASA].

It goes by the name of MWC 480 and lies some 450 light years away in the constellation Taurus.

Over 20 million light-years away, its peculiar appearance marks it as a polar ring galaxy.

The large galaxy is the brightest member of the Centaurus galaxy cluster, some 150 million light-years away.

BLOCK: Do you stop and think, Kathryn, that this supernova is 240 million light-years away?

Located nearly 1, 500 light-years away from Earth, the Orion nebula is the brightest spot in the sword of the hunter constellation.

Indeed, something similar may have happened in a solar system just 50 light-years away.

Explanation: Some 60 million light-years away in the southerly constellation Corvus, two large galaxies collided.

Also known as M20, it lies about 5, 000 light-years away toward the nebula rich constellation Sagittarius.

About 44 million light years away sits NGC 5866, the Spindle Galaxy, seen here in an edge-on view that reveals its thinness.

To their surprise, however, they spotted a second ring, formed by light from a third galaxy 11 billion light years away.

The Snake Nebula, silhouetted against ancient stars massed near the nucleus of our galaxy, which is about 25, 000 light years away.

The titanic galaxy-galaxy collision is located a mere 400 million light-years away in the constellation Ophiuchus.

The model takes viewers through an exhilarating ride through the Orion Nebula, a vast star-making factory 1, 500 light-years away.

Some 60 million light-years away in the southerly constellation Corvus, two large galaxies collided.

A planetlike body 4, 000 light-years away may be the compacted remains of a white dwarf star that is now mostly diamond.

This month's Milky Way result extended such distance measurements to some 10, 000 light years away from the Sun.

Explanation: Nearly 50 million light-years away in the constellation Ursa Major, NGC 4013 was long considered an isolated island universe.

The Red Rectangle nebula lies about 2, 300 light years away towards the constellation of the Unicorn (Monoceros).

The immense Carina Nebula is an estimated 7, 500 light-years away in the southern constellation Carina.

Such a high redshift indicates the galaxy is 9. 3 billion light years away, so we see it just 4. 4 billion years after the Big Bang.

We are still light years away from the nuclear-free world he mentioned then.

This is about 50 million light years away, so one of our neighboring galaxies.

A classic dark nebula, the Snake is a tendril of interstellar gas and dust about 650 light years away.

The very nearest star to us is four light years away.

Separated by a dark cloud of obscuring dust, the two bright nebulae are about 1, 500 light-years away.

A line of words recording memory light-years away.

Even by very optimistic estimates from the Drake Equation, the nearest super-civilization is well over 1, 000 light-years away.

Only 11 million light-years away, Centaurus A is the closest active galaxy to planet Earth.

The possible seven-planet system orbits a sun-like star called HD 10180, located 127 light-years away in the constellation Hydrus.

The nebulae are located in the constellation Cassiopeia, about 6, 000 light-years away from Earth.

At only 10 light-years away, Epsilon Eridani b is a great place to start.

Arp 273 lies in the constellation Andromeda, roughly 300 million light-years away from Earth.

The island universe is about 50, 000 light-years across and lies some 60 million light-years away toward the constellation Aries.

This planet is orbiting a star in the Pegasus constellation some 50 light years away.

But these galaxies, members of Hickson Compact Group 31, are relatively nearby, only 166 million light-years away.

The "rose galaxy, " or Arp 273, is more than 300 million light-years away from Earth, in the Andromeda constellation.

The small open star cluster Pismis 24 lies in the core of the NGC 6357 nebula in Scorpius, about 8, 000 light-years away from Earth.

The x-ray jet in the upper left extends for about 13, 000 light years away from the black hole.

M15 lies about 35, 000 light years away toward the constellation of the Winged Horse (Pegasus).

The planet in question orbits a star called Gliese 581 that lies a mere 20 light years away in the constellation Libra.

This means that a galaxy appears to be moving 160 thousand miles per hour faster for every 3. 3 light-years away from Earth.

You may not have heard of NGC 6744, a galaxy about 30 million light years away from Earth, but it sure looks familiar.

Methane, a building block for life, has been discovered for the first time on a planet 63 light-years away.

The Eagle Nebula, associated with the open star cluster M16, lies about 7000 light years away.

It orbits a red dwarf star about 28, 000 light-years away, making it the most distant exoplanet currently known.

Both galaxies contain billions of stars and are locatedsome 10 million light-years away.

The nebula, located 20, 000 light-years away in the constellation Carina, contains a central cluster of huge, hot stars, called NGC 3603.

The extrasolar planet GJ 1214b is a rocky planet rich in water that sits about 40 light-years away.

Contrast that with a supernova, described in this week's Nature, that is 440m light years away.

The center of this image features a star-forming nebula called S175 about 3, 500 light-years away and 35 light-years across.

Featured in this sharp telescopic image, globular star cluster Omega Centauri (NGC 5139) is some 15, 000 light-years away.

The most distant galaxy currently known is 13. 2 billion light years away, formed only 480 million years after the Big Bang itself.

The magnificent spiral galaxy M83 lies 15 million light years away in the Southern sky.

This artist's concept illustrates an unexpected black hole discovered in 2002 by NASA, about 32, 600 light-years away.

NGC 3982 is located about 68 million light-years away in the constellation Ursa Major.

And we are still light years away from that dream, everywhere.

And the edge of our galaxy is 75, 000 light years away, and the nearest galaxy to us, 2. 5 million light years.

IC 1805 is located about 7, 500 light years away toward the constellation Cassiopeia.

Cassiopeia A, despite having been missed by 17th-century astronomers, is a mere 10, 000 light years away.

Explanation: These are galaxies of the HerculesCluster, an archipelago of island universes a mere500 million light-years away.

It is actually a triple-star system about 500 light-years away.

They could detect signals from civilizations 1, 000 or more light-years away.

Explanation: Giant star forming region W5 is over 200 light-years across and about 6, 500 light-years away in the constellation Cassiopeia.

Barred spiral galaxy NGC 4731 lies some 65 million light-years away.

The new planet, called Kepler 10-b, orbits a sun-like star 560 light-years away.

IC 410 lies some 12, 000 light-years away, toward the constellation Auriga.

Identified as E0102-72, the supernova remnant lies about 190, 000 light-years away in our neighboring galaxy, the Small Magellanic Cloud.

In the top left of the picture (the third screen along) you can see the Black Widow Nebula, ten thousand light years away.

This dark tower, NGC 6231, and associated nebulae are about 5, 000 light-years away.

He thinks Nemesis is a red dwarf star 1. 5 light years away.

Vela A is about 3, 300 light-years away. This image spans about 130 light-years in space.

It is 1. 4 times the size of Earth and orbits a star 560 light years away.

How awesome is it that someone can get an image this nice of something 2, 000 light years away, basically from a backyard in New Mexico?

The youngest exoplanet yet discovered is less than 1 million years old and orbits Coku Tau 4, a star 420 light-years away.

The planet is located about 1, 400 light years away from Earth and zips around its parent star in only three and a half day

I'm lost in the milky, you're light years away from me, I wish on a shooting star,

The feeling that I can't go on is light-years away

Shall I go, shall I stay107 light years away so many times, so many doubts But no reason to talk about

Ten thousand light years away from you

Now it all seems light years away

But your light-years away from me

That only seemed light years away

The Eskimo Nebula for example has a surface temperature of 200, 000 degrees C ( 35 times hotter than our Sun and is 3500 light years away)