What would the Milky Way look like in the night sky to an observer on a planet at the very edge of the galaxy?

Answer 1

Given good visibility, as a greyish band across the sky. In other words, exactly as we see it - since we happen to be fairly close to the edge of the galaxy.

Answer 2

You mean the outside rim?
Imagine that a CD is the Milky Way. It's about that same shape. In the center part of the CD where the clear part is, imagine an egg yolk stuck in the CD. This is the Milky Way's nucleus.
We live *inside the CD*, in the plastic, one half or 2/3rds of the way out from the center. You can already tell that the Milky Way from Earth is thinner on the winter side than the summer side. This is because there's less galaxy to look through on that side. On the *very edge*, you'd only see stars and the Milky Way on half the sky, and empty blackness on the other side (okay maybe a few globular clusters). The Milky Way you did see would look pretty much the same, maybe slightly less bright, due to the lower local star density and more intervening dust blocking the central brighter portions.

Everyone, it would *not* look the same, at the very edge there's no more Milky Way left to be seen further out. You'd only see half a Milky Way.

Answer 3

We are closer to the edge than the center so probably pretty similar to what we see. Just a swath of stars across the sky.

Answer 4

You are looking at it from the edge! Our solar system resides in one of the spiral arms!

Answer 5

It would look the same as we see on earth.

Answer 6

it will look like a river of light thats why it is called akash ganga