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Question What would the view from a spaceship traveling through inter-galactic space look like?
My character is traveling aboard a spaceship through inter-galactic space (it has left the Milky Way). The ship is traveling at the speed of light or so and has been for the last six thousand years. When she looks outside through a window, what does she see?
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over 4 years ago
Question Would a corpse look different on an interstellar spaceship?
I'm writing a murder mystery set on an interstellar starship. Context: The victim was found dead in a zero-gee chamber inside the ship. The ship is in interstellar space and traveling at around half the speed of light (the chamber is a therapeutic room artificially kept at zero gee). My question:...
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about 5 years ago
Question Could a planetary nebula obscure the presence of a black hole/neutron star?
I have a civilization that lives on a planet located inside a nebula (and orbiting a normal, sun-like star). Would this nebula somehow interfere with/ obscure the sight of a rogue neutron star/ black hole coming their way? I'm hoping the answer is yes, so that by the time they notice it, it's too l...
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over 5 years ago
Question Intelligent life wiped out in a binary system with a neutron star?
For the purposes of my story, I have created the following setting. An Earth-like planet orbits a binary star system made up of a Sun-like star and a neutron star. For the majority of time (hundreds of thousands of years), it orbits the Sun-star, but occasionally, it gets "snatched up" by the neutro...
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over 5 years ago