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Any time you see something, with your eyes or with an instrument, it is because light from the object reaches you. This light takes a while to reach you; if the object is at a distance of 30 centimeters, it will take a nanosecond; if it comes from the star Rigil Kentaurus, it will take over 4 years, and if it comes from the galaxy M31, it will take 2-3 million years. That means that if we see the light from a distant star, it may already be dead (from a certain point of view - see the definition of simultaneity in the Theory of Relativity).


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