Sentences with MEGAPARSEC
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"A megaparsec is a unit of distance used in astronomy."
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"The Andromeda Galaxy is about 0.78 megaparsecs away from us."
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"Scientists often use megaparsecs to measure the distances between galaxies."
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"The most distant galaxy known is about 13 billion light-years away, or 4.2 megaparsecs."
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"Astronomers use megaparsecs because regular units like miles or kilometers are too small for intergalactic distances."
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"The Hubble Space Telescope has helped astronomers make more accurate measurements of megaparsecs."
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"The Virgo Cluster is about 16 megaparsecs away from our Milky Way Galaxy."
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"The concept of a megaparsec was first introduced in the 1960s."
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"One megaparsec is equivalent to about 3.09 million light-years."
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"The distance between two points in space can be expressed in megaparsecs."
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"The Local Group of galaxies spans a diameter of about 10 megaparsecs."
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"The scale of the universe can be better understood when using megaparsecs as a unit of measurement."
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"The term megaparsec is derived from 'mega-' meaning million and 'parsec' which is a unit used for astronomical distances."
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"The expansion of the universe causes the distances between galaxies to increase over time, often measured in megaparsecs per million years."
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"The Large Quasar Group spans a region of space that is about 4,000 megaparsecs across."
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"The distance to the Great Attractor, a gravitational anomaly, is estimated to be about 250 megaparsecs."
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"The light from the most ancient galaxies visible to us has traveled billions of megaparsecs to reach our telescopes."
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"Some distant quasars are located at distances of over 10 gigaparsecs, equivalent to 10 billion megaparsecs."
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"Clusters of galaxies can be used as cosmic rulers, allowing astronomers to estimate cosmic distances in megaparsecs."
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"The concept of a megaparsec is important for understanding the large-scale structure of the universe."
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"A megaparsec is a unit of length used in astronomy, equal to one million parsecs."
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"The Andromeda Galaxy is approximately 0.78 megaparsecs away from our Milky Way."
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"Scientists estimate that the observable universe spans about 880 million megaparsecs."
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"The distance to a quasar billions of light-years away can be measured in megaparsecs."
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"The cosmological constant is often expressed in units of inverse megaparsecs."
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"The Hubble constant represents the current rate of expansion of the universe in kilometers per megaparsec per second."
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"Some astronomers believe that the concept of a megaparsec may become obsolete as new distance measures are developed."
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"The Large Magellanic Cloud is approximately 0.05 megaparsecs away from the Milky Way."
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"The concept of a megaparsec allows astronomers to better understand the vastness of the universe."
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"By measuring the redshift of distant galaxies, scientists can estimate their distance in megaparsecs."
