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viraptor
on March 28, 2018
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Hubble finds first galaxy in the local universe wi...
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What? What's the alternative of non-local universe that Hubble could possibly see?
mentalpiracy
on March 28, 2018
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I believe the headline is using local in the plainest sense of proximity. NGC 1052-DF2, the galaxy in question here, is only 65 million light-years away. That's not terribly far away, cosmically speaking.
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What? What's the alternative of non-local universe that Hubble could possibly see?