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Using parallax calculations, the Milky Way galaxy alone can be directly observed to have a diameter of approximately 80-100,000 light years. Calculations based on the observed brightness of supernovas of known energy output can determine the distance to more distant objects. The most distant object known is a star cluster approximately thirteen billion light-years away from Earth, observed by the Hubble telescope using gravitational lensing.<ref>Amos, 2004</ref>
 
Using parallax calculations, the Milky Way galaxy alone can be directly observed to have a diameter of approximately 80-100,000 light years. Calculations based on the observed brightness of supernovas of known energy output can determine the distance to more distant objects. The most distant object known is a star cluster approximately thirteen billion light-years away from Earth, observed by the Hubble telescope using gravitational lensing.<ref>Amos, 2004</ref>
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Although creationists have at times disputed the size of the universe, none propose that it is less than 12,000 light years across.
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Although creationists have at times disputed the size of the universe, virtually none propose that it is less than 12,000 light years across.<ref>Fangrad, Richard, 2007.</ref>
    
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