Space, the Final Frontier

I found this graphic fascinating: http://dvice.com/archives/2009/12/humbling-video.php

It's a shame that we can't see anything in real time and are stuck seeing things as they were in the past. Any thoughts as to ways to overcome this problem? I personally do not see any. Even if we send out billions of tiny satellites all over the universe, they would only be able to send radio waves back that also travel at the speed of light and by the time they arrive in most places, we may not even exist anymore to receive either the radio waves or the satellites if they return.

It's interesting how it even takes the sunlight 8 minutes to reach us. For all we know, our sun may have blown up and we wouldn't know it for 8 minutes. Ah, bliss.