So where's the ...
"You are Here" arrow?
(and the "Your luggage is over here" arrow)
Astronomers at the European Southern Observatory (ESO) have agreeably given we Earthlings a pretty good idea of what our Milky Way galaxy would look like, were we looking at it from the depths of intergalactic space. The ESO describes its snap of NGC 6744 as "almost a picture postcard" of our home, featuring "striking spiral …
I was thinking something very similar ... especially this following bit of the news, which sounded like an alien estate agent was trying to sell it to us, i.e. ... "striking spiral arms wrapping around a dense, elongated nucleus and a dusty disc"
Sounds wonderful, I can't wait! ... When can I move in! :)
it IS our own galaxy . All the intervening distance is just once round the hyperdimensional circumference of the cosmos.
Far-fetched? Should be easy to prove. Directly behind it will be yet another image of our own galaxy, formed by light which has gone twice round the daffodils to reach us.