What would the Milky Way look like from Andromeda?

amadeus1171

amadeus1171
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!"
 

Saool

Saool
In answer to your question, a bit like this.

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Punished Mobius

Punished Mobius
Probably similar to how it looks from here. A tiny speck.

As much as I am all for a new galaxy. Let's make our galaxy better before we start going to new ones. Until we get comets and all the other goodies Andromeda can stay a distant.
 

amadeus1171

amadeus1171
Punished Mobius said:
Probably similar to how it looks from here. A tiny speck.

As much as I am all for a new galaxy. Let's make our galaxy better before we start going to new ones. Until we get comets and all the other goodies Andromeda can stay a distant.
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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?!
 

Lightspeed

Lightspeed
Andromeda resembles a distant bright fuzzy spherical star cluster with a ring if you look out for it in the game.
 
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nexxo

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Punished Mobius said:
Probably similar to how it looks from here. A tiny speck.

As much as I am all for a new galaxy. Let's make our galaxy better before we start going to new ones. Until we get comets and all the other goodies Andromeda can stay a distant.
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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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Exactly. Problem is we have a lot of light pollution and we're in a particularly dusty part of the galactic arm, else Andromeda would be visually five times the width of a full moon.
 

RamirezKurita

R
Visually, the Milky Way would be slightly less impressive from Andromeda than Andromeda is from the Milky Way. Andromeda is basically the giant of our local galaxy cluster, with our Milky Way being the second largest.

In-game, it's quite possible that it wouldn't even be necessary to include some kind of super impressive FSD/hyperspace drives to include other galaxies, as the galactic edges are far less well defined than what the in-game, with tidal forces often ripping streams of stars and clouds of hydrogen from the outer reaches of galaxies to form great spiraling stellar bridges between them, often ripping apart entire dwarf galaxies. With a decent jump range and some higher tech fuel scoops that can refine hydrogen from sparser sources, it would be quite possible to hop along these stellar streams and visit nearby dwarf galaxies (and the ancient remnants thereof). I don't know if there is a notable stream that goes all the way out to Andromeda though, but either way, nobody would want to travel 2.5 million ly even if they had a 50ly jump range.
 

WindWpn

WindWpn
Well..... could try SpaceEngine and simply fly out to the Andromeda Galaxy and then have a look back at the Milky Way. Then while in Andromeda, simply check out that "second star to the right...," etc...
 
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SnowyNI

SnowyNI
"What would the Milky Way look like from Andromeda?"

Well if it was EA's ME:Andromeda mostly likely it would look bugged! ;) (At last we found a game with more bugs than ED - I'm calling Guiness Book!). ;)
 
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OfftheRails

OfftheRails
How does the Milky Way look from Andromeda? A lot like Andromeda looks from the Milky Way.

[video=youtube_share;7uiv6tKtoKg]https://youtu.be/7uiv6tKtoKg?t=3m24s[/video]
3:20 ish

Quite awesome, if you're still here in a few billiennia.
 
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