LETTER:British astronomers at the final frontier

rom Mr Len Clay

Sir: So, the Hubble telescope reveals 1,500 galaxies, each containing up to 100 billion stars, all streaming away from Earth at 19,000 miles per second (68,400,000 miles an hour).

All I can say is, thank goodness they are not heading this way!

Yours faithfully,

Len Clay

Fiskerton, Newark