This is what, the fourth time this has made it to the front page? I'm not complaining, I always like seeing it. Seems to lose more and more pixels every time, though.
How difficult is it to predict how different light sources would interact with our atmosphere? In all these photos it just looks like the colors were shifted, but I don't know if that's not how it would look like if it was a more sophisticated method (for all I know it could have been)
That was my impression, too. It looks like it's just scale and general color. Also what's the source image and why is it so pixelated? Would love to see simulated alternate night skies from other parts of the galaxy.
I suppose there's no point in asking what some of the largest stars would look like from Earth, since many have a far larger diameter than the diameter of Earth's orbit. VY Canis Majoris would extend past the orbit of Jupiter.
