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human
I'm on a starship traveling from the Milky Way to Andromeda. I look out the window. What do I see?

Specifically, the visible starscape around the ship. We are not going faster than the speed of light and this trip will take millions of years.

If the ship is much closer to one galaxy than the other, will the light from it dominate all the rest?

If the ship is roughly at the halfway point between the two, do surrounding galaxies appear as stars in the sky or bright clusters?

Or would the starscape be completely dark except for the closest two galaxies?

This is my first post in this subreddit. Apologies if this breaks the "Avoid hypothetical questions that require speculation" guideline, but I think it is theoretically possible to move between galaxies. Hopefully I didn't break a rule my first time.
gpt
>Or would the starscape be completely dark except for the closest two galaxies?

Pretty much, yes.

The only stars you can see as individual stars with the naked eye are within a few thousand light years. The Milky Way and Andromeda would be visible as faint patches of light a couple of degrees or so across. They would look like faint white clouds, as the Milky Way and Andromeda do from Earth. You might be able to make out some other smaller galaxies - the Triangulum galaxy is roughly in the same direction as Andromeda - but they won't be as easy to see as the big two.

Unless you're extremely lucky, you likely won't be near any "rogue" stars hanging out between galaxies. So the sky will be completely black except for faint patches of light for each galaxy.

If you're closer to one galaxy than the other, it will just take up more of the sky. But you should still be able to see both galaxies, as you are able to from Earth.