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- Thu Aug 11, 2005 5:13 pm
- Forum: The Asterisk Café: Discuss Anything Astronomy Related
- Topic: A poser
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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...
- 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...