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by jcims 952 days ago
You’re thinking of degrees.

Half an arcminute is 1/120th of a degree and is roughly the diameter of Jupiter in the night sky. There are about half a billion patches of night sky that are half an arcminute on each side.

It’s also about the size of a softball from a kilometer away.

1 comments

Oops, you are right, which makes this even more impressive!