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To the Sun and beyond

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Tell Bartolo Luque and Fernando Ballesteros how far the Sun is from the Earth, and they will tell you the size of the Universe.

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  1. Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Madrid, Spain

    Bartolo Luque

  2. Observatori Astronòmic, Universitat de València, Paterna, Spain

    Fernando J. Ballesteros

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Luque, B., Ballesteros, F.J. To the Sun and beyond. Nat. Phys. 15, 1302 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41567-019-0685-3

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