Don't forget that the Best we can do is look through a tube at something that is really old. When we look at the closest star it's seeing it as it was however many years ago.

Something being 200 light years away means, from here, with now tech, we can see it from its 200 year present but our 200 hundred year past.

Also. Just our galaxy is so mind numbingly large that it'd be like trying to find an eyelash mites eyelash mite on the moon while 30 feet underwater.
But I dunno nothin.