Light from yesterday

I was thinking about the stars today while I was jogging through my neighborhood and I had a small realization. If the light from the stars at night is that of the past, then what would our light look like from another planet? I've often wondered about light as the means to time travel and I find it interesting that every night we can look into the sky and see the past, sometimes hundreds of years or more. If the past is so beautiful, I wonder what the future looks like? I see this as a reminder to move my thoughts out of my body and into the cosmos...who knows what is out there.