And of course those "some" things would be anything within 186,000 miles, as that is how far light travels in a second. It takes light about 1-1/4 seconds to get to us from the moon. Of the 8 planets, Venus gets the closest at 23-25 million miles (when it is between the Sun and Earth). That's about 2 light minutes. The nearest star, outside of the Sun, is about 50 trillion miles, or 4-1/3 light years away. The Sun, at around 93 million miles, is 8 light minutes from Earth.
No actually EVERYTHING, at ANY distance, that we see happened the past whether it’s 186,000 miles away (appears one second in the past) 93,000 miles away (half a second in the past) or right in front of our faces (infinitesimal fraction of a second in the past.) ANY object we “see” is because light traveled from somewhere and it took some amount of time to travel to our retina and what our brain tells us we see happened at some time in the past, whether the duration is unbelievably small and recent like the image you’re reading on your monitor or billions of years in the past like some of the stars you see when you peer into the night sky.