[SunkenCiv]

[Credit: NASA, ESA, & F. Paresce (INAF-IASF), R. O'Connell (U. Virginia), & the HST WFC3 Science Oversight Committee]

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a mere 170,000 light years away

another words, the light we see was emitted pre pretty much everything we now regard as human civilization existed. wild