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“A still more glorious dawn awaits, Not a sunrise, but a galaxy rise, A morning filled with 400 billion suns.”

Very unlikely Starship will launch any starlinks this year. I don't expect payloads for starship until 2024.

Can you imagine how long it would take to extend that thing??

Surface tension is irrelevant at such a scale.

I can't. The box is right-side up.

Ceres is easy with binoculars or a small scope. Have also seen Makemake with it. Haumea should be possible. If I live to over 100, Eris will be too when it gets nearer to the Sun again.

tip: look at it upside down...

Never seen it, unfortunately.

I know they are working on thin meniscus mirrors there now, which is what I do for my larger scope projects.

Can I ask how this photo was obtained. From my understanding, this can't be seen from the naked eye due to interstellar dust and such?

I'm glad OP informed us that this is a simulated view. Otherwise I would have thought OP had a really long selfie stick.

I feel like I just watched some super computer video of exactly what will happen?

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His glasses float off his head and we just see his head just bouncing around like a pin ball as he tries to get them back on.

At this point does anyone actually believe we will survive past the next 200 years?

Would be cool if they had primitive religions that believed the Milky Way to be some kind of heaven that they go to when they die. We’d be living in their heaven. Seeing supernova in the Milky Way would be like a message from heaven.

I remember driving on the highway with my kids. We could see it though the windows under streetlights. It was REALLY bright. I'm old enough to remember 'seeing' Halley's comet. My dad woke me up to go out in the yard to see a once-in-a-lifetime-event. Probably the biggest disappointment of my life. A VERY faint blob with no visible tail.

The trout population will probably be negatively affected unfortunately

Yes, as stated in the title, it's a simulated view and not a photo. A photo like this will remain physically impossible for a long, long time. However, considering we have enough information about our own galaxy (such as its size, general orientation, and position relative to its neighbors) and that the software used to produce the images takes all of that into account when simulating the universe, it's the furthest from "just a guess" than we can scientifically get at this moment. The image is the product of a mathematical simulation using the scientific data we currently have.

Mars in 100% inhabited by robots controlled by aliens on another planet.

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False, since we don’t have a photo of our own galaxy from space. So this is just a guess that this is what the Milky Way looks like.

I remember watching this. All i wanted to do was sit outside at night and stare at it for as long as it was still in the sky. I would have been about 5 at the time.

I always had it in my head that comets streaked by quickly. Hale-Bopp was clearly visible for months. I remember playing street hockey at a local church parking lot in the spring of 97 with that hanging in the night sky.. wild.

Not even a few there’s a less than 1% chance that a star collision will occur when the two galaxies collide. If the distance between the stars was measured in kilometres the stars would be grains of sand.

Additionally while the stars exhibit gravity that often doesn’t put them on collision courses. Play some kerbal space program and learn how hard it is to hit a large gravitational object without just slingshotting around it.