If some stars that are lightyears away are dead, does that mean the exoplanets we find are also dead?

Question

I get really excited over exoplanets that are Earth-like so I’m wondering how this works.

In: Planetary Science

Answer 1

The farthest known exoplanet was 27,000 lightyears away.

So the images we captured are 27k years old.

Realistically, that planet’s star is still very much around, and so is every other exoplanetary star we’ve ever found, because I think we’d have noticed the behaviour of the star since we have to closely observe it to detect the planet moving across it and dimming it!