Nuggets from Cosmos, Creator, and Human Destiny

What about our telescopes? Don’t they show us distant galaxies? We can continue reaching out many thousands of light years with our telescopes—can’t we? Not really. Even the most powerful telescopes are limited by the speed of light that brings the out-of-date images to us. We are not seeing distant stars as they are now but as they were when that light began its long-ago journey toward Earth. Our strongest telescopes can’t show us the universe as it is today. We’re looking at ancient history, for which any connection to the present can only be surmised.