Eli5. A question trying to understand if you would see events on a planet happening faster if you moved towards it

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If a planet was 5 million light years away from earth, the James Webb from earth would see it as it was 5 million years ago.

And say if we continued to watch this planet from the earth we would see events happening at the same speed on earth.

if I was to fly towards this planet in a space ship with a telescope, would I see events on the planet being sped up and if I was to fly away would events happen in slow motion?

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nailed it with your assumption but also youd need to move really really fast to make any measurable difference due to the speed at which light travels

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