Paddy van CH wrote:
I'd say, the bigger problems would be that these nebula are big. Very big. The pillars of creation are 4 ly high and they are only a very small portion of the Eagle Nebula. That's the distance between Sol and the next neighbor. So you need to be quite a distance away to appreciate their full glory. And at that distance your eyes wouldn't be sensitive enough to actually see something.
Very good point.
Paddy van CH wrote:
All in all I'm now asking myself, why the hell do I fly 7000 ly to look at something I can't actually see ans is in all likeliness no longer there....
Because it's there, or possibly isn't, only one way to find out
