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The pinpoints of starlight we see with the naked eye are photons that have been streaming toward us for a few years or a few thousand.

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Brian Greene
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: February 9
Actor
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Physicist
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Theoretical Physicist
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New York City
New York
Brian Randolph Greene
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