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As I was helping my teenage kids with their science homework, I began to wonder if and how Einsteins theories on time/space relationship would apply to someone who was using a telescope to view a far distant Red Giant going SuperNova.
Would using a telescope to view such an event result in our seeing the SuperNova before our being able to see it unaided, and if so, does that mean that the telescope is being used to view the SuperNova from a theoretical point far from Earth thereby, taking us back in time?
Or, do telescopes just magnify the light that reaches the end of the telescope resulting in no time shift of viewing at all - that the light making up the telescopes image is exactly the same light which make up the image reaching our unaided eyes?
Hope my novice question makes sense?
Would using a telescope to view such an event result in our seeing the SuperNova before our being able to see it unaided, and if so, does that mean that the telescope is being used to view the SuperNova from a theoretical point far from Earth thereby, taking us back in time?
Or, do telescopes just magnify the light that reaches the end of the telescope resulting in no time shift of viewing at all - that the light making up the telescopes image is exactly the same light which make up the image reaching our unaided eyes?
Hope my novice question makes sense?