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Recently a star, Icarus was seen by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope. What was the approximate time taken by Icarus’ light to reach the Earth?
Options
Nine billion years
Ten million years
Seven trillion years
One hundred years
Solution
Nine billion years
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