When light (photons) travel from a distant star, do individual photos get “spread out” so that there is space between photons as they race through the cosmos?

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When light (photons) travel from a distant star, do individual photos get “spread out” so that there is space between photons as they race through the cosmos?

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Some xray space telescopes routinely view objects so faint and far away that they actually *count* individual photons as they hit the sensor. You might only detect one photon every couple of seconds from a given source.

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