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Have we made an object that could travel 1% the speed of light?

  • Written by Chris Impey, University Distinguished Professor of Astronomy, University of Arizona
imageIt only takes light about eight minutes to go from the Sun to Earth. loops7/E+ via Getty Imagesimage

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