aphilsphan t1_jea2ao4 wrote on March 30, 2023 at 2:46 PM

Reply to comment by [deleted] in Can gravitation lensing massively shift the apparent location of stars? by IPv6Guy

The spirit of your point is correct. We can only see fairly close stars with our naked eyes, but we can see great big stars that are further than 50 ly. Rigel is like 800 ly away and even I can see it.

[deleted] t1_jea2nuo wrote on March 30, 2023 at 2:49 PM

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