A distance so big our brains cannot comprehend it.
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Well what you’re seeing at night already is light traveling from stars very far away. The closest one to us still took two and a half million years to reach us. Hubble has the benefit of seeing light from more distant stars since Earth’s atmosphere isn’t in the way
Because the objects that it is viewing are BILLIONS of light years long and wide. All of those nebulas you see are absolutely massive, they just not be incredibly bright. This is in contrast to Pluto which cannot be seen very well from the hubble space telescope. It is bright enough, but too small. Fun fact, you can see the [orion nebula](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YIGRpctqZs0) with just a camera.
Ahh that makes a lot of sense. Thank you
It’s not seeing the objects. It’s registering the light that those objects emitted oh so long ago and which has traveled to our planet.
If you point a flash light at the floor you don’t see the bulb, but you do see the light on the floor.
At least, that’s my understanding.
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