What would the Milky Way look like from Andromeda?

Saool

Saool
amadeus1171 said:
Have you looked at Andromeda with the naked eye? It's not a tiny spec. It's amazing! My eyesight isn't that great, but I can see it. I can't make out the individual arms; it looks blurry, but it's just mind-bogglingi to look at it and know that it's an altogether another galaxy. How cool is that?!
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Hmm, are you sure about seeing the arms? Most of Andromeda is hidden by dust. With the naked eye you can see the galactic core, about the width of the moon in the sky. However if not for the dust, you would see Andromeda stretching six times the width of the moon in or skies. It would be the most obvious and dramatic thing in the night sky.

Even in ED we are just seeing the core. (but given some of the other clangers (Pleiades in infra-red anyone?), I suspect they just did not know better.
 

dunnst

dunnst
If Fdev somehow miracleously gave us just one another galaxy, just a week after someone would say something like "YES! I knew they can do it! Now give us ALL the galaxies!" :)
 

Comrade Napoleon

Comrade Napoleon
dunnst said:
If Fdev somehow miracleously gave us just one another galaxy, just a week after someone would say something like "YES! I knew they can do it! Now give us ALL the galaxies!" :)
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All ? How many galaxies are there ? The Milky Way is just another "bump on the road" galaxy, the one you hardly notice when you zoom past. Nothing special, small time, like a sleepy midwestern town in the US..... ZZZZZZZZZZzzzzzzzzzzzZZZZZZZZ!
In the near future (Universe scale) we will become a road kill when Andromeda hits us, and nobody will really notice!

Translated from Alien
" Hey, look at this, The Milky way just bought the ticket!!"
"So what, it was always a fragging place, ya know"
"ya, but anyways.. "
"Get over it, there's plenty like them"
"ya , I know"
"Lets go Planet Bowling, what you say ?"
"Sure"

Your own significance is just something we share among ourselves, The Solar system matters as much as a grain of sand in Sahara.
Except to us :)

Cheers Cmdr's
 

Bran Tse Mallory

Bran Tse Mallory
I'd like to know why it's Andromeda that you want to go to?

Right next to us we have a few dwarf galaxies and of course the Canis Majoris overdensity which loops over our Milky Way. Andromeda is just about as far from us as you can get in our local galactic cluster.

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Fost

Fost
I'd love it if we could somehow travel down the magellanic stream to the LMC and SMC. I suspect that's how the Thargoids got here...
 

Ouberos

Ouberos
I read somewhere that we don't currently know what shape the Milky Way is because it's impossible to tell from inside it.

The best guess is that it's a spiral but there isn't 100% certainty to how many arms there are or how big our own arm / spur is.

But most likely it would just be another blob surrounded by blobs.

As for going to other galaxies : Soon....
 

IndigoWyrd

IndigoWyrd
Since we have never actually exited our own galaxy, we don't actually know what it really looks like. It could be pink for all we really know. We have made educated guesses based on observations we have made, so we're pretty sure, but seeing really is believing.
 

Spruxxx

Spruxxx
Maybe someone with real astro skills can confirm, but my understanding is that we don't really know what the Milky Way looks like because we don't accurately know the positions of that many stars (relatively) - what we think of as that nice spiral shape is best guesses and artists' impressions. If we could see it from Andromeda, that would be the first real look :)

Kepler is currently building an accurate 3D map of the galaxy (the real Galmap!), and working at a phenomenal rate, but has 'only' provided the positions of 1 billion stars to date...
 

Vasco Sapien

Vasco Sapien
Spruxxx said:
Maybe someone with real astro skills can confirm, but my understanding is that we don't really know what the Milky Way looks like because we don't accurately know the positions of that many stars (relatively) - what we think of as that nice spiral shape is best guesses and artists' impressions. If we could see it from Andromeda, that would be the first real look :)

Kepler is currently building an accurate 3D map of the galaxy (the real Galmap!), and working at a phenomenal rate, but has 'only' provided the positions of 1 billion stars to date...
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[video=youtube;OSDZjz0YZTE]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OSDZjz0YZTE[/video]
 

DCLXVI your God

DCLXVI your God
amadeus1171 said:
I so want to travel to another galaxy!

FD, can't we make this happen? Not cmdrs, right now, but maybe Felicity Farseer could fund a massive new prototype hyperdrive capable of travelling to another galaxy. The ship would have to be magnificently large, serveral times the size of the largest station in order to accommodate the drive and the power requirements. It would have to use the old witch space technology because the current hyperspace technology couldn't accommodate a ship so large. And she would need a large number of materials to construct this ship and resources, so a community goal is in order.

Make this happen, pz! And make the arrival a live stream, sending back the first pictures sent from another galaxy; a photo of the Milky Way galaxy with an arrow pointing to the Earth and the caption, "Hello World!"
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Aaah...
Andromeda.
I would very much like to go there too. [yesnod]

But I would prefer to be able to go there by myself.
Not limited to being transported.
 
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