The farthest galaxies visible in Hubble Space Telescope photos are about ________ light-years away.

A) 1 million
B) 12 million
C) 1 billion
D) 12 billion
E) 12 trillion


D) 12 billion

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What distance method is used to determine the distance to the most distant galaxies?

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A. 0.00012 ? B. 0.00021 ? C. 0.0012 ? D. 0.0021 ?

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