Who are the artists that provide the pictures used as illustrations for media articles about galactic activity taking place billions of years ago and a similar distance away? One must assume that their work is based on either visible versions acquired from telescope analysis or verbal descriptions provided by astronomers. If the source of the images are available to the astronomers to look at themselves and then pass them along to artists, why not just use the initial images? 
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If you've taken the trouble to leave the couch on a cloudless night and gaze into the depths of the sky you'll see, just as every human in history has, an uncountable number of stars. In fact, you are seeing the very same stars that proto-humans once saw many thousands of years ago, in the same positions they are today.
The modern proliferation of various telescopes has allowed researchers to assume a position corresponding to the astronomers of antiquity who used their familiarity with the cosmos to hold positions of importance in society that usually included a place in government and religion. Today's astronomers must be satisfied with a say in dispersal of research funding and a sinecure in a field where they are the ultimate authority of essentially useless information.
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