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Creation Day 2: The Stretching of the Raqia
Next to the sun, Alpha Centuri is earth's closest neighboring star. At a distance of 24 trillion miles from earth, it would take a beam of light leaving Alpha Centuri right now 4.367 years to reach the earth.
The Andromeda Galaxy (containing over 1 trillion stars) is the closest large galaxy to our Milky Way Galaxy (containing 200 - 300 million stars). It is one of a few galaxies that can be seen unaided from the Earth.
Using today's most powerful radio telescopes, scientists can now look far back into the distant past at light that left the most distant galaxies over 13.1 billion years ago.
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