Imagine I have a telescope with strong enough zoom to observe the earth like google maps street view, if I looked at the earth very closely from 500 light years away, would I see 1524 happening in real time? Or time as it is now?
In: Planetary Science
Yes, and it’s the same for us. We are observing the universe in the past. Some stars we are observing now are probably exploded a long time ago. The information from that event is stored in the light, and it haven’t reach us yet.
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