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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You answered your own question. It’s just new, modern stars whose light hasn’t reached us yet. Eventually the rate at which the universe is expanding will mean that new stars are too far away/moving away too fast for their light to *ever* reach us, but that’s still a long way off.

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