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Tried the other day to get an answer to the thing that really stumps me but to no avail. Someone please help me out here. Some of the pix on the pix of the day archive list some galaxies as being millions of light years away. To me it would be impossible to SEE anything that far away, even with a po...

Thanks very much Ann. That is exactly what has me stumped, " light will be spread out over a very large cone", so if it is in fact diluted and has fewer photons how is it possible to see individual stars in a distant galaxy say 150 million light years away. The pix we see from the Hubble a...

Please excuse my ignorance as a stargazer only. My question is simply this: If a light year is a trillion miles, how is it possible to see anything listed as 300million light years away.? This just blows me away. :shock