I guess the telescopes that can see millions of light years away are for the big, “stationary” things. Harder to see the “little” things. I mean, even to think that we can detect an object half a football field in size at hundreds of thousands of miles is pretty incredible. Not like we can do much about it.
Sort of like we can see the big semi down the road in front of us. Can’t see the pebble that hits our windshield. And even if the semi lost a rock off the back end - how many of us keep enough distance to be able to stop in time even if we did see it?
Man you’re sharp.
I HATE that so many people are smarter than me on this board :)
But your example should be in school text books.
I dont know what I was thinking. Those stars we see (though likely dead now) are YUGE.
I’m thinking we could see something smaller than a football field 100s of thousands of miles away :)