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The James Webb telescope: part alien life detector, part time machine

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Can someone explain how a telescope can “see back in time”? I understand the concept of reading infrared light, and that light travels, so is it that the light it will be looking at has traveled through time and as such, is a glimpse back in time? Thanks redditors!! »