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IS it true that the sun is actually 7-8min behind it's true movement when we look at it from earth?

cool, so what if we look in to a telescope with 4.6billion yrs away?

 

At the time you'll do that, I will do the same from the other side of the Earth.

And I will also see galaxies 4,6 billions Light-Years away from us, but not the same as you do. Yours & mine galaxies will be distanced from each other 4,6 + 4,6 billions = 9,2 billions LY, at a time just after the Big Bang.

Easy.

Yes, it takes sunlight about eight minutes to reach Earth, so what we see is "delayed" eight minutes.

 

so if there was an intelligent alien world looking at earth from billions of lightyears away and we left today to go there on course at lightspeed (or closest to lightspeed) what would they see when we arrived?? would they just see the ship leaving earth as we physically arrived to their planet?

From the alien's point of view, it would take a near-infinite amount of time for you to reach it due to time dilation at near-lightspeeds, so that discrepancy would not occur.

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