Viewing from another galaxy

[ZandraJoi]

What do you think of viewing constellations on other planets in the Milky Way Galaxy or even in another galaxy altogether? Do you think they would look the same?
SG1 Atlantis moved to the Pegasus Galaxy & the stars were different. But I was wondering if we could view stars many light years away from Earth, how would those same stars look on, say, Jupiter or on a planet much further out in our galaxy. Stars we see are from long ago so they in actuality look different in viewed in real time.
Anybody ever thought of this?

[Kyng]

I don't think they'd look the same at all from anywhere outside the Solar System.

It's important to remember that even stars within the same constellation are much further from each other than they look. For example, the three stars that make up Orion's belt look very close together, but in reality, Mintaka is 1,200 light years from Earth; Alnitak is 1,260 light years away; and Alnilam is 2,000 miles away (so it's almost as far from the other two as they are from Earth ). If we went to a different location in the galaxy, then it's likely that those three stars would be in completely different parts of the sky from one another (or at least, Alnilam would be in a different part of the sky from the other two!)

Of course, if we did settle another planet elsewhere in the galaxy, it probably wouldn't be long before we developed an entirely different set of constellations for that planet (and one of those constellations might even include our own Sun!)

[ZandraJoi]

I don't think they'd look the same at all from anywhere outside the Solar System.

It's important to remember that even stars within the same constellation are much further from each other than they look. For example, the three stars that make up Orion's belt look very close together, but in reality, Mintaka is 1,200 light years from Earth; Alnitak is 1,260 light years away; and Alnilam is 2,000 miles away (so it's almost as far from the other two as they are from Earth ). If we went to a different location in the galaxy, then it's likely that those three stars would be in completely different parts of the sky from one another (or at least, Alnilam would be in a different part of the sky from the other two!)

Of course, if we did settle another planet elsewhere in the galaxy, it probably wouldn't be long before we developed an entirely different set of constellations for that planet (and one of those constellations might even include our own Sun!)

It's amazing how close stars can look to make up the Constellations!
It'd be cool if we settled on another planet (thinking Sci-Fi not in actual real life) & we'd have more than one Sun near us. Or at least brighter stars that would appear closer than the moon appears right now to us.

[Kyng]

I don't think they'd look the same at all from anywhere outside the Solar System.

It's important to remember that even stars within the same constellation are much further from each other than they look. For example, the three stars that make up Orion's belt look very close together, but in reality, Mintaka is 1,200 light years from Earth; Alnitak is 1,260 light years away; and Alnilam is 2,000 miles away (so it's almost as far from the other two as they are from Earth ). If we went to a different location in the galaxy, then it's likely that those three stars would be in completely different parts of the sky from one another (or at least, Alnilam would be in a different part of the sky from the other two!)

Of course, if we did settle another planet elsewhere in the galaxy, it probably wouldn't be long before we developed an entirely different set of constellations for that planet (and one of those constellations might even include our own Sun!)

It's amazing how close stars can look to make up the Constellations!
It'd be cool if we settled on another planet (thinking Sci-Fi not in actual real life) & we'd have more than one Sun near us. Or at least brighter stars that would appear closer than the moon appears right now to us.

Indeed - as long as they're not so close that the planet is permanently in daytime. I'd want to be able to sleep at night !

[Pyrite]

It just makes you appreciate the constellations more knowing that they can only be seen this way because of our relative location in the universe. Makes them more special, to me at least.  

I love the idea of the Sun forming part of a constellation - it's the sort of thing you'd see crop up in a sci-fi novel.

[ZandraJoi]

Indeed - as long as they're not so close that the planet is permanently in daytime. I'd want to be able to sleep at night !

LOL You make a point! Although parts of the Northern areas get almost permanent daytime. That must be hard.

It just makes you appreciate the constellations more knowing that they can only be seen this way because of our relative location in the universe. Makes them more special, to me at least.  

I love the idea of the Sun forming part of a constellation - it's the sort of thing you'd see crop up in a sci-fi novel.

Arcturus is about 25x bigger than our sun & while it's not a "sun", it's brighter than our sun is. That'd be cool to see if it were closer.