how can we see planets that are like 100s of 1000s light years away? And when we do, aren’t we looking in the past?
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Simple answer is light travels until it hits something. Space is pretty empty so it keeps going until you see it. Then that bit of light stops.
And, yes, whatever we are seeing happened long ago. Even the light from our sun is 8 minutes old before we see it.
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