Starship Asterisk*

Why don't some of the contributors stick to the original question instead of fantasizing about drugs and dreams?

Larry

Thanks to mjimh and Chris. I was kind of thinking it would look more like mjimh's clip. Since we're on a wispy arm of the Milky Way, and the Lagoon nebula is right in the midst of the galaxy, the sky would be very much more congested than what we see in this (relatively speaking) scarcely populated ...

Thanks Chris.

Larry

If I were to live on an earth-like planet with a single sun similar to ours but located somewhere in the Lagoon Nebula, how would the night sky look to me? I'd suspect that I would be looking at a very bright sky lighted by massive numbers of stars along with many colorful groups of stars and dust. ...

Looking at the close up view of this different moon, would it not be fair to think that it just may be a captured comet? With all the holes in it -- perhaps vent holes (?) -- and it's shape not much different than the Deep Impact Temple1, it does lead one to think that in the old days, it was a come...