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Originally Posted by Nowhere Man
On top of that, the scope would have to go out 4.5 billion light years in order to view light that came from the forming solar system. That's twice as far away as the Andromeda galaxy is, currently. You'd need a 'scope the size of a planet, or bigger, in order to see any details.
So the idea has another strike.
Fred
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Actually, the Andromeda Galaxy is "only" about 2.5 million light years away. So you'd have to go around 2000 times that distance in order to see the solar system forming - and then you'd probably need a telescope the size of the Andromeda Galaxy in order to get useful resolution at that distance.