Thirty years might seem a fair stretch of time in local terms, but when translated into stellar distances it was nothing.
To pick up radio waves across the vastness of stellar distances we need something better.
As stellar distances go, Marika, we are still very close to home.
The stellar distance is 45 parsecs or 145 light years from our solar system.
He proposed the siriometer as a unit of stellar distance.
"Which, because of stellar distances, closes off the universe to us."
Since the radio system works from stellar distances, it should be more than adequate for what we'll find.
Hooke's activities in astronomy extended beyond the study of stellar distance.
Because stellar distances were so great, it would take weeks to get help from Starfleet.
At a stellar distances, light is the only tool we have.