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“The pinpoints of starlight we see with the naked eye are photons that have been streaming toward us for a few years or a few thousand.” quote by Brian Greene — Download Open image

“The pinpoints of starlight we see with the naked eye are photons that have been streaming toward us for a few years or a few thousand.”

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