Nevertheless, life is possible; they could have begun their search billions of years before our Sun was created. With the new advances the Hubble Space Telescope has made, we are now able to actually view stellar objects forming; we can actually see back in time- what happened billions of years ago. They are so far away, it has taken light that long to reach us- to reach Hubble's magnified point. An amazing thing has happened: We see some of the same processes happeneing in other, very distant star-systems and galaxies that we assumed happened in our own galaxy billions of years ago. This is very important in the search for possible life. It seems, through our observation of distant stellar objects, that we are part of a cycle or pattern. These patterns can be observed in many different places. Take, for example, the atom: we can observe the way electrons orbit the nucleus. The electrons' movements within an atom are not unlike the orbits of the planets in our solar-system. It is a very far-fetched idea to relate these two in a direct way; however, the point here is that nature has a way of repeating itself- creating similar patterns.