system
Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
Sci-fi films often show a backdrop of an entire galaxy, perfectly visible. Wouldn't that be an impossible sight to see without a telescope? Isn't the light too faint to see all those stars so well without long exposures?
gpt
It depends where the observer is relative to the galaxy. The Milky Way is visible to the naked eye even from Earth's surface, despite atmospheric scattering. Conceivably, a starship located near a galaxy, but not in the galactic plane as Earth is, would be able to see its spiral structure with clarity.