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Ask HN: Telescope as a Window to Our Past

This is for the physics nerds out there. If Hubble telescope can see a past event of a distant planet, can the earth’s past be seen by a Hubble telescope placed in a distant planet? The answer is most likely yes. So my follow up. What if there is a mirror like object on that planet that reflected the light back onto earth? Can Hubble then become a window to our past? And can we essentially manoeuvre Hubble to pick up past events “live”? It’s almost like having a drone above us but feeding us images from the past. Sorry about the long question :(
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Re:Ask HN: Telescope as a Window to Our Past by lgl on Saturday April 25, 2020 @11:03PM (#22983990)
This question or variations of it are not too uncommon and you can find some answers for this on stackexchange, reddit, quora, etc with a bit of googling [0].

tl;dr: Theoretically yes, practically no.

0 - https://www.google.com/search?q=mirror+in+space+to+see+the+p...

Re:Ask HN: Telescope as a Window to Our Past by ram1981 on Sunday April 26, 2020 @08:47AM (#22986763)
Thanks. I just didn’t use the right Google search strings. This helps
Re:Ask HN: Telescope as a Window to Our Past by rman666 on Sunday April 26, 2020 @01:48AM (#22984852)
It would be easier to build a time machine. Search Google for plans.