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Intelligent_Moose_48 t1_iu6w9ez wrote

It’s so wild to try to imagine the sheer scale of these things. Lightyears across.

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Zenki_s14 t1_iu6zwpq wrote

5 lightyears across, 1 lightyear being 6 trillion miles or 9 trillion km. Just completely unfathomable. And the pillars are just a small feature of the Eagle nebula. Wild indeed

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