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Can we see our solar system 115 million years ago?

Per starchild.gsfc.nasa /docs/StarChild/questions/question18.html our solar orbits the Milky Way‘s center, taking a whooply 230-million-year trip. However, as estimated, our galaxy‘s diameter is only 100,000 light years, would it be possible that Hubble Telescope will be able to capture a clear picture of our solar system 115 million years ago?

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I'm not following your reasoning. 115 million years ago, we were on the opposite side of the galaxy, and our sun and planets were emanating/reflecting light. This light sped off in all directions, including toward the other side of the galaxy (where we are now). Those photons reached the other side of the galaxy in (something less than) 100,000 years, and then continued on out of the galaxy, and have been streaming through intergalactic space ever since then. In other words, all of the photons that the sun generated 115 million years ago have left the building--they are all streaming AWAY from our galaxy (and away from the Hubble) right now. The Hubble can't capture light that is moving away from it.
If that would be true, that would mean that the Sun is rotating the galaxy with speed faster that the speed of the light its emitting, and then it's able to receive the light that it emitted in the first place! Faster than the speed of light assumption, auto-rejects the proposal, according to Einstein. Also: - 100,000 years for the light to come from one edge of the galaxy to the other. - 115,000,000 years for the Sun to come from that orbit point to it's diametrical. So the light from the Sun, at the position it was 115,000,000 million years ago, passed by our position at the moment, a good 114,900,000 million years ago.
The hub of our galaxy blocks the view. The light possibly arrives, from about 1/4 or about 3/4 of the way around the orbit, but Hubble is not nearly sensitive enough to produce a clear image. Neil
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