Starship Asterisk*

Speaking of emptiness, it boggles the mind (well, mine) that two galaxies can collide without any two stars colliding - WOW!

Understood, neufer. I am struggling with how we look outside of our galaxy (that contains stars, dust, gas). Posters mentioned galatic north and/or south as the best and clearest way out, but I am still hanging onto an analogy I read once that we, the Earth, are inside of a panacke and every directi...

Great info, folks, thanks! Now I imagine from our vantage point not seeing any stars is very difficult knowing that there are multiple arms, and the halo surrounding the core is ripe with stars/globulars as well... But, Sam, I have wondered how exactly Hubble does it's Deep Field thing. I assumed th...

I know that the "path" to the galatic core is through Sagittarius. That said,

1. Which constellation(s) are the other way, opposite the galatic core?
2. And, once peering at this constellation(s), am I looking into interstellar space? Or is there another Milky Way arm(s) that I cannot see?