The Universe is a trippy place.
When you look into the night sky at a star 632000 light years away, that means the light from that star has taken 632000 years to reach your retina. So what you are actually seeing is that star as it existed 632000 years ago, not as it is today. Today it might be going supernova or not even exist anymore. So you are literally seeing into the past!
Ponder that the next time you gaze at the stars :)
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Then you're actually looking into the past. Considering that the light of the nearest star, Proxima Centauri, takes roughly 4 years to reach us. Odd to think that many stars you can see appear exactly as they were before mankind even existed ... !
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Yeah @strontvlieg, its kinda trippy right!
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Yup. we see but a snapshot of the universe how it was million maybe billion years ago, because light speed is constant
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Crazy wonderful weird world :)
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Wake up this is all BS. We have never been to space the world is flat and we are under a dome RESEARCH Flat Earth
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