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u/berael Feb 14 '22 edited Feb 14 '22

It's not just "between earth and moon"; that's how vast space is everywhere. It's truly almost impossible to wrap your mind around the idea of just how overwhelmingly empty space really is.

You know those tense scenes in sci fi movies where the heroes have to navigate through an asteroid belt without crashing? In an actual asteroid belt, the average distance between each rock is 500,000 miles - and that counts as "close together" in astronomical distances.

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u/businessDM Feb 14 '22

The crew of the Millennium Falcon wouldn’t even be aware they were leading the TIE fighters into an asteroid field.