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submitted 1 year ago by teft@startrek.website to c/astronomy@mander.xyz

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[–] mookulator@mander.xyz 4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Relative to what exactly?

[–] menturi@mander.xyz 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Probably relative to the CMB (the frame of reference where there is no redshift or blueshift bias in any direction).

[–] mookulator@mander.xyz 2 points 1 year ago

Thank you! At that scale the simpler answers just don’t feel sufficient

[–] teft@startrek.website 2 points 1 year ago

Relative to their point of origin.

[–] dudinax@programming.dev 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

At that speed, relative to most nearby large object

[–] mookulator@mander.xyz 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

But what if all nearby objects are moving towards it at a similar speed? Or away? At such a large scale speed becomes a mind bending thing.

[–] dudinax@programming.dev 1 points 1 year ago

No other large object will be moving close to that speed so it'll be almost like they are standing still.