M109, the Milky Way and NGC 253 walk into a pub. Barman says "we're not serving you, you're barred!"

[the aforementioned galaxies are thought to have central bar-shapes. Oh, never mind...]

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Yonder is Dubhe seen on Earth tonight as it was in the days of Grover Cleveland's presidency whereas this way is Deneb seen as it was in the lifetime of Muhammed . If one somehow travelled to Deneb at very close to c then whenever you looked back you'd measure Earth as closer to you than the distance you would simultaneously measure between Earth and Dubhe.