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If the events of Star Wars happened a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away, does that mean if we had a good enough telescope, that we could watch it be played out before our very eyes?
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Well yes, we see distant objects delayed by finite speed of light and thus substantial travel time - but you have to remember the limit of resolution. At visible wavelength and in the nearest galaxy you would need a light gathering surface of 10km diameter just to be able to resolve two objects at 96 million miles apart! To get resolution of a millimetre you would need a telescope far bigger than the solar system.
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so we'd need some sort of giant, interstellar moon-sized space station?...
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Can you increase the resolution by using multiple small telescopes, each widely spaced apart? For example scattering a million large optical telescopes around the Oort cloud?
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Yes - an astronomical interferometer.
Following up Bizerl's suggestion of a moon sized space station - was its destruction an inside job?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2dvv-Yib1Xg
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