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Old December 10th 03, 06:42 PM
Jonathan Silverlight
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Say "hi" to Rod Serling for me, and i have a sillyass gut
feeling that people are underestimating the brightness
of our Galaxy Central by several increments. "Sillyass"
because there is unfortunately no way to be certain.

And i know just as sure as i know how to pound these
keys that the hub of the Milky Way Galaxy is bright
enough to rival the Sun!


You're being unduly influenced by the end of "The Empire Strikes Back",
and by all those pictures that show the centre of a galaxy as dazzling.
Don't forget that the first is fiction and the second is the result of
integrating the light over minutes to hours.
OTOH, consider the view from a star about a thousand light years from
the centre. I suspect that would be truly spectacular, though I'll leave
it to an artist like Ron Miller to work out the details and do it
justice.
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