Exoplanets and relativity Ok, so I have read about how exoplanets are found using all sorts of genius methods.  I also understand the further an obect in a telescope is the further into the past I am looking.  

So given that we are finding exoplantets with methods that go well beyond any practical visual range are we fnding these exoplanets 'in their past' as well? As far as I understand radio telescopes and other methods can't travel faster than light therfore their results are also from past events, is my reasoning in this right?
Yes, you are indeed correct. We always see what was happening at a given location when the light was emitted there for us to be detected. Let's assume we observe a oscillating star 100 light years away by measuring the shift in frequency of the detected light. That means that the star was actually oscillating a hundred years earlier and we just happen to observe it now; But we (that means nobody) have no way of knowing what is happening now due to the fact that information can't travel faster than light (especially when the information is transmitted via light as in our case).