The Image of Galaxies and Ourselves

The image of galaxies long since destroyed is now reaching us.  They no longer are in themselves, but are now becoming real for us.  When they were actual, we were not yet.  So relative is their reality -- real to us, but not to them, and it may be our fate, too:  present as an image of what was.  Even if not actual the image is real, even if its reality belongs now only to the observer.