NASA AND ASTRONOMERS CANNOT, AS THEY WANT US TO BELIEVE, SEE BILLIONS OF LIGHT YEARS AWAY INTO SPACE
We are being deceived.
Light travels at 186,000 miles per second. One light year is 6,000,000,000,000 (6 trillion) miles that light, ostensibly, travels through a space vacuum.
Driving at 60 mph, it would take 11 million years to finish the 6 trillion-mile trip.
Light is made of photons. These photons scatter with distance like BBs from a shell shot from a shotgun.
This scattering can be measured by the inverse square law which dictates that each time the distance is doubled the quantity of light becomes 4 times less. In other words, the photons spread apart rapidly and eventually are so diffuse they cannot be detected.
There are complex speculated concepts such as photon/waves, red shifting light, and bending of space-time which are used to make the inverse square law not apply to light. But the reality is that light is diminished and diffused with distance.
This is how the inverse square law is explained in photography.
A regular camera detects light's photons. A digital camera detects electrons knocked out of place by the photons.
When a photon strikes an image on a digital detector, it's registered as a ‘hit’ by the release of an electron to help create a pixel for an image. But detectors are imperfect so this might not occur, meaning the photon, if one ever does reach the target, is effectively lost.
Keep in mind that one photon or one pixel is a long way from a meaningful image.
Light from a star, galaxy, or other light sources traveling billions of light years would be lucky to land even one photon to even one spot on Earth that could create any sort of meaningful image.
The diminishment of light over distance is not the end of the problems for photons trying to reach us from billions of light years away.
Space is not empty. The photons would not have clear sailing through the billions of miles of space. They'd have to dodge all the stuff between the light source and earth, such as:
In addition to that, there are speculated to be 1080 (1 followed by 80 zeros) particles in the universe.
Some will try to set these objections aside by saying space is so vast that it's primarily empty. However, the same NASA astronomers supposedly taking the pictures claim that 95% of space is FILLED with dark matter and dark energy.
Finally, there's this impasse.
Remember how photographers tell us to hold still so they don't get a blurred picture? Imagine taking a picture of something trillions of miles away while Earth is supposedly moving through space in multiple directions at 2.8 million mph. The subject space objects are moving in different directions at similar speeds.
But these insurmountable problems do not stop NASA and others from giving us beautiful colored and detailed images like these of objects 13 billion and more light years away.
Such pictures are what enthrall NASA/government believers who don't want to know that these are what one photon, one pixel, a few of them, or none of them --along with creative artists, not astrophysicist photographers--create!