Faster-than-light travel. Artwork of a spacecraft travelling faster than the speed of light. Although the concept is popular in science fiction, scien

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Faster-than-light travel. Artwork of a spacecraft travelling faster than the speed of light. Although the concept is popular in science fiction, scientists consider it an absolute certainty that no material object can travel at or faster than the speed of light in a vacuum. It would therefore take several years to reach the nearest stars, and billions of years to reach the farthest known objects in the universe.

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Size: 4866px × 3650px
Photo credit: © WALTER MYERS/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

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