Eli5. How can the Hubble Telescope see billions of lights years away?

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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

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