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    $\begingroup$ +1, I like this. I realized that making the star distant from other stars would solve some of the issues but it did not occur to me that if the star is distant enough you won't be able to distinguish individual stars just galaxies with the light of stars with different spectra smudged together: Such stars are intergalactic stars and they form normally and are then ejected from the galaxy they form in. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intergalactic_star $\endgroup$
    – Ville Niemi
    Commented Apr 16, 2019 at 7:13
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    $\begingroup$ Related to this, Can a star be so distant/isolated that its 'Earth' can't see other stars? $\endgroup$
    – user
    Commented Apr 16, 2019 at 7:20
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    $\begingroup$ I don't see a problem. Have the star ejected by gravity assist from galaxy collision between star formation and planet formation. $\endgroup$
    – Joshua
    Commented Apr 16, 2019 at 17:52
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    $\begingroup$ And you can easily propose that they wouldn't develop Telescopes powerful enough for a long long while, since "there's nothing to see" $\endgroup$
    – Hobbamok
    Commented Apr 17, 2019 at 8:15
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    $\begingroup$ If Andromeda wasn't so close, we would have noticed other galaxies probably not too long before this. Because they are really, really far apart! $\endgroup$
    – Fabian Röling
    Commented Apr 17, 2019 at 11:05