Thread: How do we know if distant Galaxies are still there
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Old 03-26-2007, 10:18 PM
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We do not know that they are still there. When astronomers look at galaxies billions of light years away they are looking billions of years back in time. To put it another way this ancient light really left that galaxy billions of years ago.
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