If stars we see are billions of years dead, what is really out there now?

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They say that when we look up to see stars, we’re actually seeing the light from dead stars. So technically, we can’t see what’s out there in the present? What do you think is out there now? is it just new, modern stars or we don’t get to see anything at all? (since by now, everything has expanded billions of miles apart from each other that light is far from anything to reach)

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What does “now” even mean if you’re talking about a point in space that is so far away that any hint of its existence won’t be “here” until long after humanity is gone. There is no meaningful relationship in space or time between us and such a place. That is, it isn’t sensible to assign a word constrained by our idea of reality to something so far beyond it.

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