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panzuulor t1_j8hm2kg wrote

The light would’ve already passed us. We can only see light that hits our telescope every nanosecond and every nanosecond new light from that object reaches us. We can never determine where in the sky that light started to travel. Our snapshot of the universe is exactly that; the light that we see exists in the moment it reaches us locally but the object it originated from is never in the same position as we see it.

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