Distance records are an excellent proxy for the state of the art in astronomy. Finding extremely faraway galaxies is hard. In general, objects get smaller and fainter with distance (although bizarre ...

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Distant Worlds: Universe looks like a 4X game, but it wears many masks. It has a whole closet filled with them. On Monday, it might be an RTS or a wargame, where you command enormous armadas of space ...

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