Starship Asterisk*

Dear all, Thanks for all of your comprehensive replies. Of which, it sounds like I should be grateful to be living within a galaxy populated sufficiently with stars for the night sky to be interesting! Though being in a cluster with neighbouring stars close enough to be visible during daytime would ...

Hi everyone, Today's APOD shows a "nearby" globular cluster with what's quite a small number of stars in it - less than half the number of people in the city in which I live in. It made me wonder what sort of night views a planet might have when there are only tens of thousands of local st...