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When we look up at the stars what are we looking at?

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When we look up at the stars what are we looking at?

Because of the finite speed of light, when you gaze up into the night sky, you are looking into the past. The bright star Sirius is 8.6 light years away. That means the light hitting your eye tonight has been traveling for 8.6 years. Put another way: When you look at Sirius tonight, you see it as it was 8.6 years ago.

Why do we look up at the stars?

Not only us, our size in general, but how small our problems are, how small our lives are, in relation to the universe. Looking at the stars helps us keep perspective that whatever we think is so important and overwhelming and difficult in life right now is actually very insignificant.

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What can we see in space during the day?

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  • The sun. Obviously, you can see the sun during the day, but paradoxically, we’re told not to look, for fear of harming our eyes.
  • The moon.
  • The planet Venus.
  • Earth-orbiting satellites.
  • The planet Jupiter.
  • The planet Mars.
  • Stars during eclipses.
  • Daytime comets.

When we look at stars on a clear night sky we apparently are peeping into the past because?

THEY EMIT LIGHT RAYS AND THESE LIGHT RAYS ACTUALLY TTRAVEL A VERY VERY LARGE DISTANCE BEFORE ENTERING IN OUR EYES. FOR E.G. FOR UNDERSTANDING ONLY YOU CAN SAY THEY IF A STAR EMITS SOME LIGHT RAYS 2 DAY BEFORE THEY COME IN OUR EYES 2 DAYS AFTER THEIR EMISSION. HENCE INDIRECTLY WE ARE PEEPING INTO PAST.

What are some questions about the universe?

Many of the biggest puzzles in astronomy and cosmology have been solved. Take the age of the universe. A century ago, we could say only that the universe was very old….

  • What is Dark Matter?
  • What is Dark Energy?
  • What Came Before the Big Bang?
  • What’s Inside a Black Hole?
  • Are We Alone?
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Can you see stars in the daytime?

Stars aren’t visible during the sunlit hours of daytime because the light-scattering properties of our atmosphere spread sunlight across the sky. Seeing the dim light of a distant star in the blanket of photons from our Sun becomes as difficult as spotting a single snowflake in a blizzard.

How old are the stars we look at?

Stars are like your very own sparkly, astronomical time machine, taking you back thousands of years. All of the stars you can see with the unaided eye lie within about 4,000 light-years of us. So, at most, you are seeing stars as they appeared 4,000 years ago.