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If we know the path that both the Milky Way and our <b style="color:black;background-color:#66ffff">solar</b> system have been on, could Hubble not look back on that path and see both at some point in the past? | Astronomy.com
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If we know the path that both the Milky Way and our solar system have been on, could Hubble not look back on that path and see both at some point in the past?

Jim Brady, Winchester, Massachusetts

RELATED TOPICS: HUBBLE TELESCOPE
Astronomers' Milky Way model
We say that a telescope looks back in time when it looks into space, but that is not exactly true. Light takes some amount of time to travel from one object to another; it is not instantaneous. Light covers 186,282 miles (299,792 kilometers) each second.

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