light years
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Fragile creatures of a small blue planet, surrounded by light years of silent space.
At this point in my career, Apollo 13 is a million light years away.
Perhaps we have, after all, decided to choose life. But we still have light years to go to ensure that choice.
Pure science - this vision of the universe as 15 billion light years across - I am bedazzled and awed by it.
When I moved to Brighton from London in 1995, I was struck by what I thought of as its townliness. A town, it seemed to me, was that perfect place to live, neither city nor country, both of which like to think they are light years apart but actually have a great deal in common.
We detect light and particles that have traveled billions of light years on their way across the universe to us. During the billions of years of travel, very small effects due to quantum gravity can be amplified to the point that we can detect them.