[Kosh]

If we were to look up in the night sky on another planet in another star system, would we ever see nebulas in the background, you know, like we do in FS?

[castor]

They'd be nowhere as bright as they are in FS.

[Angelus]

Yeah, but it still would be cool to have a Nebula nearby that's visible without the need for a telescope.
Not close enough to get funky radiation problems, though.

[Kolgena]

I'm also quite sure that they wouldn't be that colorful. Lots of the nebula images NASA gives us are digitally enhanced, aren't they?

[The E]

Most of the really colourful pics you're seeing are actually from infrared photography....

[Scourge of Ages]

Therefore, realistic background nebula being pretty boring, just do what looks best.

That's what I assume to be the general rule.

[Droid803]

Rule of Cool plz.

[jdjtcagle]

I vote we have boring color.  It would feel right playing through Fs1&2 again with a realistic background.

[Droid803]

Well, it won't be realistic unless the stars are in the right place.

[Klaustrophobia]

realisitcally, you wouldn't see ANY nebula in most systems.  the most nebula-esq effect you would see is the milky way star cluster (i'm not sure what its proper name is)

[Mongoose]

Galaxy, I believe the technical term is.

[Klaustrophobia]

well we are IN the galaxy, so we aren't really seeing "the" galaxy.  i thought there was a term for the dense trail looking along the disk, but maybe not.

[Wobble73]

Well, if this can be seen from Earth?



And there are nebula and stellar nurseries within the Milky way, there maybe a few systems that are close enough for nebula to be that visible!

[Snail]

That looks like a high-exposure shot with a very long shutter time.

[General Battuta]

Aye, the sky doesn't look like that to human eyes.

[Wobble73]

Probably, you can even see a shooting star like object. but still that's from earth with an atmosphere and light pollution to contend with, in the depths of space with the right visor filters, who knows what it would look like?

[Aardwolf]

Actual astronauts?

[Wobble73]

In near earth orbit, not in deep space.

[Aardwolf]

In near earth orbit, not in deep space.

There's no significant difference between out in the middle of nowhere and up near the moon.

[Wobble73]

Apart from the ambient light reflected from the earth and moon, and the closeness to Sol.