How big Andromeda would be in our sky if we could see it all.
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Feel free to reply to any comment by clicking the "Reply" button.A good pair of binos will show what this picture shows. Just not as bright. Of course you need to be under a really dark sky.
starwatcher-al
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Mar 3, 2021
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As I looked out into the night sky, across all those infinite stars, it made me realise how insignificant they are.
waitingforgodo
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@desertastronomer of course how silly of me, unless it's something an English comedian once said.
Just a comment, the Milky Way and Andromeda are part of the Local Group, which is a part of Laniakea. Apparently this group is all moving together towards a point called the Great Attractor. If one wants to feel small they can Google all these places and see just how insignificant we are. The really cool thing for me is that we are next to a Great Void, a part of the Universe that is not filled with a filament like that of Laniakea. The Universe is a magnificent thing and being able to see some of it even through technology is fascinating.
dalefvictor
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It will at some point, that large in the sky..
Charlene
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Actually, it already is, with proper optics.
@dalefvictor it's visible as a small blurry patch in the night sky. Unfortunately everything looks like a blurry patch to me without my glasses..
I have seen this picture before and I wonder how our religious thought would be changed if the ancients could have seen this. Where would we have been if religion said we must examine this place and talk to the god there?
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