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View Post: ELI5: How can a telescope see "farther" into the universe? In other words, we're looking at light that has travelled vast distances to reach us, but the light we are capturing has already reached us. Aren't we just capturing light that's already here? Is it just resolution size?

ELI5: How can a telescope see "farther" into the universe? In other words, we're looking at light that has travelled vast distances to reach us, but the light we are capturing has already reached us. Aren't we just capturing light that's already here? Is it just resolution size?

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Are the pictures we’re seeing real?

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