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Why do Hubble Space Telescope images show what objects looked like long ago?

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when we get images from the telescope, we're not seeing those object like they are right now. we're seeing them like they looked when that light left those distant objects...... the animation cuts to a visualization of distant galaxies imaged by Hubble.

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