Ingredients: 1  1/3 cup olive oil. 2  5 garlic cloves. 3  Pinch of red pepper flakes (optional) 4  1 Tbs. fine dried bread crumbs, toasted. 5  3 lb. small clams, preferably Manila, well scrubbed. 6  1/2 cup dry white wine. 7  1 cup water. 8  1/4 cup chopped fresh flat-leaf parsley. 9  1/4 cup chopped fresh cilantro.
1 The nearest star is some 4.2 light years away, and that distance was known to within an accuracy of better than 0.1 light year. 2  For a star measured as 20 light years away, the distance estimate is accurate to within a light year or so.  For stars 50 light years away, the margin of error is perhaps 5 to 10 light years.
Many of us, while still in grade school, learned about the staggering distances to planets, stars and galaxies. The sun is approximately 150 million km or 93 million miles away, a distance that is known as the astronomical unit (AU). Venus, our closest neighbor, is 0.72 AU from the sun, while Mars is 1.52 AU from the sun.