5 billion light years from Earth. The latest star, farthest ever seen, is apparently that far away. Yesterday showing niece how to play that horrible 1-6-4-5- song on the piano. The one everyone in the world always played, who couldn’t play piano, at every public gathering since the Well Tempered Clavier. Maybe it is called Heart and Soul. I know it was written long after Bach, still I bet the people of Vienna tried doing it when Bach left the room. My niece started it, not me. But I couldn’t help myself, she played it wrong. Her ear is great, I showed her the correct fingering she found it crazy. She went back and forth trying to remember, looks at me like do you know how insane your instructions are? But I know how it goes, she doesn’t. She kept trying, I think she’s a natural. Anytime I hear about how many light years away something is I have no idea what they are talking about. They mean if we were traveling at the speed of light, then one light year is how far we would have traveled given that velocity. Right, ok, thanks for that astronomers, simple, it is just 5 billion light years away.