Could We See Star Wars?
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Hey Vsauce I'm Jake and if Star Wars were to have happened in our universe and trulyoccurred a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away ... light from the actions in Star Warscould be hitting Earth right now, or will some day. So if we pointed a telescope atthe right far away galaxy .... could we see Star Wars? Even if we choose the nearest spiralgalaxy to us, Andromeda, the requirements and results for resolving individual planets,people or ewoks turns out ... to be almost as disappointing as the Phantom Menace.To make out the flag on our moon from earth we would need a telescope that's 260meters.If we wanted a clearer picture, one that would show us the stripes, if they were stillthere, we would have to bump the size up to 6,850.The biggest optical telesc...
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Hey Vsauce I'm Jake and if Star Wars were to have happened in our universe and trulyoccurred a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away ... light from the actions in Star Warscould be hitting Earth right now, or will some day. So if we pointed a telescope atthe right far away galaxy .... could we see Star Wars? Even if we choose the nearest spiralgalaxy to us, Andromeda, the requirements and results for resolving individual planets,people or ewoks turns out ... to be almost as disappointing as the Phantom Menace.To make out the flag on our moon from earth we would need a telescope that's 260meters.If we wanted a clearer picture, one that would show us the stripes, if they were stillthere, we would have to bump the size up to 6,850.The biggest optical telesc...
