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by Spaceman
Thu Aug 11, 2005 5:13 pm
Forum: The Asterisk Café: Discuss Anything Astronomy Related
Topic: A poser
Replies: 40
Views: 9819

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Found the answer printed by Dr. Sten Odenwald: Is it difficult to know what is happening now if all of our information is about the past ? Yes. because light takes a finite time to travel from place to place, we never see things the way they are, but always the way they were some time ago. Astronome...
by Spaceman
Sat Jan 08, 2005 10:46 pm
Forum: The Asterisk Café: Discuss Anything Astronomy Related
Topic: A poser
Replies: 40
Views: 9819

A poser

I have wondered for a long time, were exactly are the stars and galaxies today? All the views I have seen are at light-year distances. I realize that the closer stars have moved only slightly in the 50 years I have been on this planet, but what about stars across the milky way? It's 100,000 light ye...