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One) If the new location is in a multiple star system, the other stars might be so far away from the planet that they don't appear as discs and suns but as dots of light in the sky. But they might appear many times brighter in the sky of the planet than any stars in Earth's sky.

Since other stars in the star system should be hundreds or thousands of times closer than stars in other systemdsystems, they should appear tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands, or millions of times as bright as the stars in Earth's sky.

Maybe when it or they are above the horizon they dim the distant stars in interstelalr space considerably and are all that someone can notice or pay attention to, but when they go below the horizon the other stars in interstellar space become very noticeable.

Two) Maybe, as others have suggested, the planet is in a denser region of space where a lot more stars are visible and some of them are much closer to it than any stars are to Earth, and thus appear much brighter.

Three) You may have heard about a science fiction novel, The Mote in God's Eye (1974) by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle. When I read it I tried to think of an astronomical phenomenon which could be called "the Beam in God's Eye".

Suppose there was a world in the Virgo Galaxy Cluster where the great elliptical galaxy M87 appears as a circle of light in the sky, brighter toward the center, and the world is close enough to M87 that the light emitted by the relativistic jet of matter from the core could be seen. Thus if the natives call M87 the eye of their god, the jet could be called "the beam in God's Eye".

A parsec is a distance at which 1 Astronomical Unit (AU) would appear to be one arc second wide. A parsec is 206,265 AU long. The jet of M87 is about 1,500 parsecs long, and thus, seen from the side, it would appear 1000 arc seconds long at a distance of 3,093,975 parsecs, 10,000 arc seconds long at a distance of 309,397.5 parsecs, 100,000 arc seconds long at a distance of 30,939.75 parsecs, etc.

The maximum resolution of the human eye is about 28 arc seconds or 0.47 arc minutes or about 0.0078333 degrees. Thus at a distance of 3,093,975 parsecs the jet would appear to be 7.8333 degress wide if seen at a right angle, which is about 15.666 times as wide as the Moon seen from Earth. I note that an astronomer is said to have seen the jet with his eyes through the 100 inch telescope, instead of in phtographs, so someone close enough to the jet should be able to see it with their unaided eyes from the surface of a planet.

Four) Suppose that two spiral galaxies were headed for each other on a collision course, like the Milky Way and the Andromeda Galaxy are. If a planet is on the opposite side of its galaxy from the other galaxy, it would see both, one behind the others. If that planet orbited in the plane of its galaxy, it would see its galaxy's disc as a band of light across the sky, like the Milky way is seen from Earth.

And if the other galaxy's plane was at an angle, it would be visible as an oval area of light in the skay. But the other galaxy could be oriented with the edge of its disc facing the planet. And the other galaxy's disc would probably be inclined at an angel to the disc of the nearer glaxay. Thus two milky ways would seem to cross each other in the sky.

And I have some other ideas.

One) If the new location is in a multiple star system, the other stars might be so far away from the planet that they don't appear as discs and suns but as dots of light in the sky. But they might appear many times brighter in the sky of the planet than any stars in Earth's sky.

Since other stars in the star system should be hundreds or thousands of times closer than stars in other systemd, they should appear tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands, or millions of times as bright as the stars in Earth's sky.

Maybe when it or they are above the horizon they dim the distant stars in interstelalr space considerably and are all that someone can notice or pay attention to, but when they go below the horizon the other stars in interstellar space become very noticeable.

Two) Maybe, as others have suggested, the planet is in a denser region of space where a lot more stars are visible and some of them are much closer to it than any stars are to Earth, and thus appear much brighter.

Three) You may have heard about a science fiction novel, The Mote in God's Eye (1974) by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle. When I read it I tried to think of an astronomical phenomenon which could be called "the Beam in God's Eye".

Suppose there was a world in the Virgo Galaxy Cluster where the great elliptical galaxy M87 appears as a circle of light in the sky, brighter toward the center, and the world is close enough to M87 that the light emitted by the relativistic jet of matter from the core could be seen. Thus if the natives call M87 the eye of their god, the jet could be called "the beam in God's Eye".

A parsec is a distance at which 1 Astronomical Unit (AU) would appear to be one arc second wide. A parsec is 206,265 AU long. The jet of M87 is about 1,500 parsecs long, and thus, seen from the side, it would appear 1000 arc seconds long at a distance of 3,093,975 parsecs, 10,000 arc seconds long at a distance of 309,397.5 parsecs, 100,000 arc seconds long at a distance of 30,939.75 parsecs, etc.

The maximum resolution of the human eye is about 28 arc seconds or 0.47 arc minutes or about 0.0078333 degrees. Thus at a distance of 3,093,975 parsecs the jet would appear to be 7.8333 degress wide if seen at a right angle, which is about 15.666 times as wide as the Moon seen from Earth. I note that an astronomer is said to have seen the jet with his eyes through the 100 inch telescope, instead of in phtographs, so someone close enough to the jet should be able to see it with their unaided eyes from the surface of a planet.

Four) Suppose that two spiral galaxies were headed for each other on a collision course, like the Milky Way and the Andromeda Galaxy are. If a planet is on the opposite side of its galaxy from the other galaxy, it would see both, one behind the others. If that planet orbited in the plane of its galaxy, it would see its galaxy's disc as a band of light across the sky, like the Milky way is seen from Earth.

And if the other galaxy's plane was at an angle, it would be visible as an oval area of light in the skay. But the other galaxy could be oriented with the edge of its disc facing the planet. And the other galaxy's disc would probably be inclined at an angel to the disc of the nearer glaxay. Thus two milky ways would seem to cross each other in the sky.

And I have some other ideas.

One) If the new location is in a multiple star system, the other stars might be so far away from the planet that they don't appear as discs and suns but as dots of light in the sky. But they might appear many times brighter in the sky of the planet than any stars in Earth's sky.

Since other stars in the star system should be hundreds or thousands of times closer than stars in other systems, they should appear tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands, or millions of times as bright as the stars in Earth's sky.

Maybe when it or they are above the horizon they dim the distant stars in interstelalr space considerably and are all that someone can notice or pay attention to, but when they go below the horizon the other stars in interstellar space become very noticeable.

Two) Maybe, as others have suggested, the planet is in a denser region of space where a lot more stars are visible and some of them are much closer to it than any stars are to Earth, and thus appear much brighter.

Three) You may have heard about a science fiction novel, The Mote in God's Eye (1974) by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle. When I read it I tried to think of an astronomical phenomenon which could be called "the Beam in God's Eye".

Suppose there was a world in the Virgo Galaxy Cluster where the great elliptical galaxy M87 appears as a circle of light in the sky, brighter toward the center, and the world is close enough to M87 that the light emitted by the relativistic jet of matter from the core could be seen. Thus if the natives call M87 the eye of their god, the jet could be called "the beam in God's Eye".

A parsec is a distance at which 1 Astronomical Unit (AU) would appear to be one arc second wide. A parsec is 206,265 AU long. The jet of M87 is about 1,500 parsecs long, and thus, seen from the side, it would appear 1000 arc seconds long at a distance of 3,093,975 parsecs, 10,000 arc seconds long at a distance of 309,397.5 parsecs, 100,000 arc seconds long at a distance of 30,939.75 parsecs, etc.

The maximum resolution of the human eye is about 28 arc seconds or 0.47 arc minutes or about 0.0078333 degrees. Thus at a distance of 3,093,975 parsecs the jet would appear to be 7.8333 degress wide if seen at a right angle, which is about 15.666 times as wide as the Moon seen from Earth. I note that an astronomer is said to have seen the jet with his eyes through the 100 inch telescope, instead of in phtographs, so someone close enough to the jet should be able to see it with their unaided eyes from the surface of a planet.

Four) Suppose that two spiral galaxies were headed for each other on a collision course, like the Milky Way and the Andromeda Galaxy are. If a planet is on the opposite side of its galaxy from the other galaxy, it would see both, one behind the others. If that planet orbited in the plane of its galaxy, it would see its galaxy's disc as a band of light across the sky, like the Milky way is seen from Earth.

And if the other galaxy's plane was at an angle, it would be visible as an oval area of light in the skay. But the other galaxy could be oriented with the edge of its disc facing the planet. And the other galaxy's disc would probably be inclined at an angel to the disc of the nearer glaxay. Thus two milky ways would seem to cross each other in the sky.

And I have some other ideas.

One) If the new location is in a multiple star system, the other stars might be so far away from the planet that they don't appear as discs and suns but as dots of light in the sky. But they might appear many times brighter in the sky of the planet than any stars in Earth's sky.

Since other stars in the star system should be hundreds or thousands of timetimes closer than stars in other systemsystemd, they should appear tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands, or millions of times as bright as the stars in Earth's sky.

Maybe when it or they are above the horizon they dim the distant stars in interstelalr space considerably and are all that someone can notice or pay attention to, but when they go below the horizon the other stars in interstellar space become very noticeable.

Two) Maybe, as others have suggested, the planet is in a denser region of space where a lot more stars are visible and some of them are much closer to it than any stars are to Earth, and thus appear much brighter.

Three) You may have heard about a science fiction novel, The Mote in God's Eye (1974) by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle. When I read it I tried to think of an astronomical phenomenon which could be called "the Beam in God's Eye".

Suppose there was a world in the Virgo Galaxy Cluster where the great elliptical galaxy M87 appears as a circle of light in the sky, brighter toward the center, and the world is close enough to M87 that the light emitted by the relativistic jet of matter from the core could be seen. Thus if the natives call M87 the eye of their god, the jet could be called "the beam in God's Eye".

A parsec is a distance at which 1 Astronomical Unit (AU) would appear to be one arc second wide. A parsec is 206,265 AU long. The jet of M87 is about 1,500 parsecs long, and thus, seen from the side, it would appear 1000 arc seconds long at a distance of 3,093,975 parsecs, 10,000 arc seconds long at a distance of 309,397.5 parsecs, 100,000 arc seconds long at a distance of 30,939.75 parsecs, etc.

The maximum resolution of the human eye is about 28 arc seconds or 0.47 arc minuteminutes or about 0.0078333 degrees. Thus at a distance of 3,093,975 parsecs the jet would appear to be 7.8333 degress wide if seen at a right angle, which is about 15.666 times as wide as the Moon seen from Earth. I note that an astronomer is said to have seen the jet with his eyes through the 100 inch telescope, instead of in phtographs, so someone close enough to the jet should be able to see it with their unaided eyes from the surface of a planet.

Four) Suppose that two spiral galaxies were headed for each other on a collision course, like the Milky Way and the Andromeda Galaxy are. If a planet is on the opposite side of its galaxy from the other galaxy, it would see both, one behind the others. If that planet orbited in the plane of its galaxy, it would see its galaxy's disc as a band of light across the sky, like the Milky way is seen from Earth.

And if the other galaxy's plane was at an angle, it would be visible as an oval area of light in the skay. But the other galaxy could be oriented with the edge of its disc facing the planet. And the other galaxy's disc would probably be inclined at an angel to be the disc of the nearer glaxay. Thus two milky ways would seem to cross each other in the sky.

And I have some other ideas.

One) If the new location is in a multiple star system, the other stars might be so far away from the planet that they don't appear as discs and suns but as dots of light in the sky. But they might appear many times brighter in the sky of the planet than any stars in Earth's sky.

Since other stars in the star system should be hundreds or thousands of time closer than stars in other system, they should appear tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands, or millions of times as bright as the stars in Earth's sky.

Maybe when it or they are above the horizon they dim the distant stars in interstelalr space considerably and are all that someone can notice or pay attention to, but when they go below the horizon the other stars in interstellar space become very noticeable.

Two) Maybe, as others have suggested, the planet is in a denser region of space where a lot more stars are visible and some of them are much closer to it than any stars are to Earth, and thus appear much brighter.

Three) You may have heard about a science fiction novel, The Mote in God's Eye (1974) by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle. When I read it I tried to think of an astronomical phenomenon which could be called "the Beam in God's Eye".

Suppose there was a world in the Virgo Galaxy Cluster where the great elliptical galaxy M87 appears as a circle of light in the sky, brighter toward the center, and the world is close enough to M87 that the light emitted by the relativistic jet of matter from the core could be seen. Thus if the natives call M87 the eye of their god, the jet could be called "the beam in God's Eye".

A parsec is a distance at which 1 Astronomical Unit (AU) would appear to be one arc second wide. A parsec is 206,265 AU long. The jet of M87 is about 1,500 parsecs long, and thus, seen from the side, it would appear 1000 arc seconds long at a distance of 3,093,975 parsecs, 10,000 arc seconds long at a distance of 309,397.5 parsecs, 100,000 arc seconds long at a distance of 30,939.75 parsecs, etc.

The maximum resolution of the human eye is about 28 arc seconds or 0.47 arc minute or about 0.0078333 degrees. Thus at a distance of 3,093,975 parsecs the jet would appear to be 7.8333 degress wide if seen at a right angle, which is about 15.666 times as wide as the Moon seen from Earth. I note that an astronomer is said to have seen the jet with his eyes through the 100 inch telescope, instead of in phtographs, so someone close enough to the jet should be able to see it with their unaided eyes from the surface of a planet.

Four) Suppose that two spiral galaxies were headed for each other on a collision course, like the Milky Way and the Andromeda Galaxy are. If a planet is on the opposite side of its galaxy from the other galaxy, it would see both, one behind the others. If that planet orbited in the plane of its galaxy, it would see its galaxy's disc as a band of light across the sky, like the Milky way is seen from Earth.

And if the other galaxy's plane was at an angle, it would be visible as an oval area of light in the skay. But the other galaxy could be oriented with the edge of its disc facing the planet. And the other galaxy's disc would probably inclined at an angel to be the disc of the nearer glaxay. Thus two milky ways would seem to cross each other in the sky.

And I have some other ideas.

One) If the new location is in a multiple star system, the other stars might be so far away from the planet that they don't appear as discs and suns but as dots of light in the sky. But they might appear many times brighter in the sky of the planet than any stars in Earth's sky.

Since other stars in the star system should be hundreds or thousands of times closer than stars in other systemd, they should appear tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands, or millions of times as bright as the stars in Earth's sky.

Maybe when it or they are above the horizon they dim the distant stars in interstelalr space considerably and are all that someone can notice or pay attention to, but when they go below the horizon the other stars in interstellar space become very noticeable.

Two) Maybe, as others have suggested, the planet is in a denser region of space where a lot more stars are visible and some of them are much closer to it than any stars are to Earth, and thus appear much brighter.

Three) You may have heard about a science fiction novel, The Mote in God's Eye (1974) by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle. When I read it I tried to think of an astronomical phenomenon which could be called "the Beam in God's Eye".

Suppose there was a world in the Virgo Galaxy Cluster where the great elliptical galaxy M87 appears as a circle of light in the sky, brighter toward the center, and the world is close enough to M87 that the light emitted by the relativistic jet of matter from the core could be seen. Thus if the natives call M87 the eye of their god, the jet could be called "the beam in God's Eye".

A parsec is a distance at which 1 Astronomical Unit (AU) would appear to be one arc second wide. A parsec is 206,265 AU long. The jet of M87 is about 1,500 parsecs long, and thus, seen from the side, it would appear 1000 arc seconds long at a distance of 3,093,975 parsecs, 10,000 arc seconds long at a distance of 309,397.5 parsecs, 100,000 arc seconds long at a distance of 30,939.75 parsecs, etc.

The maximum resolution of the human eye is about 28 arc seconds or 0.47 arc minutes or about 0.0078333 degrees. Thus at a distance of 3,093,975 parsecs the jet would appear to be 7.8333 degress wide if seen at a right angle, which is about 15.666 times as wide as the Moon seen from Earth. I note that an astronomer is said to have seen the jet with his eyes through the 100 inch telescope, instead of in phtographs, so someone close enough to the jet should be able to see it with their unaided eyes from the surface of a planet.

Four) Suppose that two spiral galaxies were headed for each other on a collision course, like the Milky Way and the Andromeda Galaxy are. If a planet is on the opposite side of its galaxy from the other galaxy, it would see both, one behind the others. If that planet orbited in the plane of its galaxy, it would see its galaxy's disc as a band of light across the sky, like the Milky way is seen from Earth.

And if the other galaxy's plane was at an angle, it would be visible as an oval area of light in the skay. But the other galaxy could be oriented with the edge of its disc facing the planet. And the other galaxy's disc would probably be inclined at an angel to the disc of the nearer glaxay. Thus two milky ways would seem to cross each other in the sky.

And I have some other ideas.

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One) If the new location is in a multiple star system, the other stars might be so far away from the planet that they don't appear as discs and suns but as dots of light in the sky. But they might appear many times brighter in the sky of the planet than any stars in Earth's sky.

Since other stars in the star system should be hundreds or thousands of time closer than stars in other system, they should appear tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands, or millions of times as bright as the stars in Earth's sky.

Maybe when it or they are above the horizon they dim the distant stars in interstelalr space considerably and are all that someone can notice or pay attention to, but when they go below the horizon the other stars in interstellar space become very noticeable.

Two) Maybe, as others have suggested, the planet is in a denser region of space where a lot more stars are visible and some of them are much closer to it than any stars are to Earth, and thus appear much brighter.

Three) You may have heard about a science fiction novel, The Mote in God's Eye (1974) by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle. When I read it I tried to think of an astronomical phenomenon which could be called "the Beam in God's Eye".

Suppose there was a world in the Virgo Galaxy Cluster where the great elliptical galaxy M87 appears as a circle of light in the sky, brighter toward the center, and the world is close enough to M87 that the light emitted by the relativistic jet of matter from the core could be seen. Thus if the natives call M87 the eye of their god, the jet could be called "the beam in God's Eye".

A parsec is a distance at which 1 Astronomical Unit (AU) would appear to be one arc second wide. A parsec is 206,265 AU long. The jet of M87 is about 1,500 parsecs long, and thus, seen from the side, it would appear 1000 arc seconds long at a distance of 3,093,975 parsecs, 10,000 arc seconds long at a distance of 309,397.5 parsecs, 100,000 arc seconds long at a distance of 30,939.75 parsecs, etc.

The maximum resolution of the human eye is about 28 arc seconds or 0.47 arc minute or about 0.0078333 degrees. Thus at a distance of 3,093,975 parsecs the jet would appear to be 7.8333 degress wide if seen at a right angle, which is about 15.666 times as wide as the Moon seen from Earth. I note that an astronomer is said to have seen the jet with his eyes through the 100 inch telescope, instead of in phtographs, so someone close enough to the jet should be able to see it with their unaided eyes from the surface of a planet.

Four) Suppose that two spiral galaxies were headed for each other on a collision course, like the Milky Way and the Andromeda Galaxy are. If a planet is on the opposite side of its galaxy from the other galaxy, it would see both, one behind the others. If that planet orbited in the plane of its galaxy, it would see its galaxy's disc as a band of light across the sky, like the Milky way is seen from Earth.

And if the other galaxy's plane was at an angle, it would be visible as an oval area of light in the skay. But the other galaxy could be oriented with the edge of its disc facing the planet. And the other galaxy's disc would probably inclined at an angel to be the disc of the nearer glaxay. Thus two milky ways would seem to cross each other in the sky.

And I have some other ideas.