What object is located 5.8 trillion miles from the Earth?

This is a distance of one light year. Astronomers know of no objects such as stars at this distance. As for other hard to detect objects, absence of evidence is not evidence for absence. We will just have to wait and see what comes up. But it probably won't be a new star.


Copyright 1997 Dr. Sten Odenwald
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