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Algebra Difficulty 1.0 Junior Find the answer United Kingdom

One light-year is nearly $6 \times 10^{12}$ miles. In 2016, the Hubble Space Telescope set a new cosmic record, observing a galaxy 13.4 thousand million light-years away. Roughly how many miles is that?

(A) $8 \times 10^{20}$ (B) $8 \times 10^{21}$ (C) $8 \times 10^{22}$ (D) $8 \times 10^{23}$ (E) $8 \times 10^{24}$

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