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What Would It Look Like from Inside a Nebula?
April 28th, 2008
One of the questions I’ve gotten as an astronomer with science fiction sensibilities more than a few times is about how nebulas would appear if we were in one.
Phil Plait, the “Bad Astronomer,” has considered this issue and made a video about how to think about the issue:
So, nebulas look cool through a telescope, but wouldn’t look so cool from within them. That’s the suck of astronomy I guess, and a bit that sf often gets wrong (Star Trek in particular is especially guilty on this point).
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