The Stars, Moons, Worlds; And The Great Cosmic Sea! A collaberative timeline.

[FiahOwl]

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[smjjames]

I would say throw some sand onto a sheet of paper, make the sand grains stars, and make that the sky.

Of course though, that would work fine for a night sky kind of thing, however, by nearby, how close do you mean, within 100 light years? 30? 10?

In a somewhat more realistic proposal, how about, using SE, choose a random star in a random galaxy somewhere, or if you want to have giant stars, supergiants, etc, choose a random star in the maybe 1,000 parsec region around Sol, open up the universe map and plot the nearby stars.

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[vh]

"In a somewhat more realistic proposal, how about, using SE, choose a random star in a random galaxy somewhere, or if you want to have giant stars, supergiants, etc, choose a random star in the maybe 1,000 parsec region around Sol, open up the universe map and plot the nearby stars."

but a star farther away has little chance of being a supergiant too, right? it's just that we see more supergiants because they're bright enough to be seen.

[smjjames]

I did say random.

[vh]

yes but you said chose a random star far from the sun, which implies that stars farther away from the sun are more likely to be supergiants.

[smjjames]

yes but you said chose a random star far from the sun, which implies that stars farther away from the sun are more likely to be supergiants.

It was bad wording, I meant if you want to have giant stars and/or supergiants as a neghbor, picking a random star in the area where the catalog stars are would give you a higher chance of that than elsewhere. I never tried to imply that a star further away would more likely to be a supergiant.