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Noun: megaparsec
  1. (cosmology) one million parsecs; 3.08568 x 10^22m or 3.262 million light years, roughly the distance from the Milky Way to the nearest galaxy (0.77Mpc to Andromeda)
    - Mpc

Derived forms: megaparsecs

Encyclopedia: Megaparsec

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