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Originally posted by Zuvio:
When they finally got the Hubble to function properly, they've focused the telescope at a single point in space without moving for 10 minutes or so? What they saw was a huge array of solar systems, very sharply defined and very young. They supposed they were looking back into time, to the beginning of the universe. How weird is that? [img]graemlins/saywhat.gif[/img]
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Yeah, that is to do with the speed of light reaching the telescope, for example just looking at the light from the sun is looking back in time roughly 7 minutes, because that is the ammount of time it takes for the light to travel from the sun and reach us on earth, so the light from things even further away takes even longer to reach us.