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Most observed stars and galaxies lie many many light years away from Earth. As a result, say for a star that is 5 light years away from Earth, the light we see coming from that star today or tonight was actually emitted 5 years ago from that star. Now imagine a star thousands of light years away, the light that we observe took thousands of years to travel to Earth and therefore carry an image thousands of year old.

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