For example if the Betelgeuze system had a planet, with a theoretical large telescope on that planet and looked back at earth. It would see life and civilizations from the 15th century a.d. (~500 light years distance)
For example if the Betelgeuze system had a planet, with a theoretical large telescope on that planet and looked back at earth. It would see life and civilizations from the 15th century a.d. (~500 light years distance)
I just spent ten minutes on Google trying and failing to find it, but there’s a novel that uses that basic premise. Humans find this network of observation satellites and are able to tap into the feed and basically watch earth from the 1300’s on. The builders are long since gone. Most of the novel is the crew trying to catch up to this museum ship that the network is uploading to.
Was a really good one if anyone knows the name of it.
Edit I found it!
If you do find the name, could you post it here please? It sounds like it could be good :)
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/382161.Chindi
Awesome, thank you :)
You mention “the builders”, and that brought me to this series. Ring a bell?
https://www.goodreads.com/series/41758-heritage-universe
I found it!! By Jack McDevitt
Awesome! Thanks for that, always adding new sci-fi to my library
Oh snap! That does sound eerily similar. Probably written before we had our idea, and I’m sure it is far more well written than what I could have done.
I’ll keep my eyes open for it!