What the night sky actually looks like:
kind of puts it in perspective that there is likely one with atmosphere like earth…?
How it "actually looks like", is also a misnomer. Nobody knows what the ground truth of what the universe "actually" looks like, apart from the visual spectrum we have to determine various composition of the various structures. The actual image is a long exposure of the visible spectrum, but the top image is also valid, since it is still the visual spectrum, but there's light pollution. The long exposure would also have invisible pollution. So, there is actually no "actual night sky".
After being raised just north of Atlanta then moving to Denver, I had forgotten (or, perhaps, never really knew) what an unadulterated night sky looked like. I spent some time in SE Alabama recently and holy smokes... the night sky was mesmerizing, even to the naked eye.
a perfect example of truth (both are true) vs perspective (what's seen may be many permutations in-between)
Nice. But these are also the lights which a specific optical camera can capture. If all sources are captured it will be complete blanket of light.
Interesting! There's more than enough crowd on earth, on roads, in temples, at parties, in gardens, on internet, in DM's, in day, in night, in afternoon, in evening, over the clouds, under the ground, around the Web, across the borders, 💙 Let us pretend the sky is clear and clean! Beauty lies in the beholder's eyes.
For 10 straight days in 1995, Hubble stared at a tiny and nearly empty patch of sky near the Big Dipper. The telescope gathered all the light it could, slowly building a picture... 3,000 galaxies, vary in shape, size and color. Amazing thing was, the patch of sky it scanned was not bigger than our thumb nail. !!!
Elephant and Ten Blind men. Its what we can perceive, with our limited sensoria and frame of reference.
I doubt there is a place you can see the second one..
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1moWhat the night sky actually looks like is similar to what the naked eyes cannot see in a room full of air. A useful extension is to estimate the volume of the room and hence the mass of the air it contains. The speed of air molecules, moving in all directions is 500 metres per second (remember the 5G network). Air has a density of about 1.2 g /litre and it envelops the planet. The pressure exerted by the atmosphere and gravity is so great that all the mass (mountains, forests, infrastructures, oceans, people, etc.) on top of the round planet won't fall when the earth rotates.