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What error bar / confidence level is generally reported in galaxy distances?
In reporting distances of galaxies, what are the typical error bars and associated confidence levels?
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What would the night sky look like if Earth orbited an intergalactic star?
If the Earth and its host star were located exactly in-between the Milky Way and Andromeda would the night sky be completely void of light?
Would stars be visible to the unaided eye?
So there could ...
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When we say a galaxy is 200 million light years away, does this account for the expansion of space in the time it took it's light to reach us?
When we see a distant galaxy, the light we are watching started it's journey millions of years ago. In all that time, space has been expanding, so if the initial distance was A, right now the distance ...
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