If our solar system were to be put near the galactic centre of the universe would our night sky be?

Question

alot brighter?

DAMN

i meant galactic centre of the milky way!

Answer 1

Yes, it would be much brighter. You know, for the few seconds before the massive irradiation of those bright stars killed us all, shortly prior to the Solar System spiraling into the Sagittarius A* black hole. But, yes, the galactic core features many stars, closer together than they are found in the spiral arms, so the night sky should be brighter.

Answer 2

The sky would have a lot more stars than we're used to seeing. Instead of a few thousand there'd be millions.

It would not turn night into day, but it might make the nights a little brighter than we're used to.

Nothing bad would happen to Earth. The galactic center probably has less habitable worlds than our part of the galaxy because it's mostly full of old stars with low metallicity, i.e. stars unlikely to have planets. Stars in the galactic center are still far enough apart the change would have minimal effect on Earth. The only thing that would happen is the night sky gets prettier.

Answer 3

Yes, it would have many more and brighter stars in the sky. But I do not agree with DavidK93 when he says we would spiral into the black hole there. There are stars VERY close to that black hole that are not spiraling in. If we were a few hundred light years away from the black hole, we would not spiral in. But I do agree radiation would probably be lethal, as would be the gravitational disturbances to the planets orbits caused by the inevitable frequent close passes to other stars in that densely populated area.

Answer 4

we wouldn't have a day and night, instead there would always be stars in the sky. if we were very close to the center we would have to worry about the accretion disk around the central black hole and the radiation given off by the accretion disk.

so yeah our sky would be brighter, but i don't think we'd be alive.

Answer 5

It would be brighter than the brightest day, anyway such environments are not conducive for life due to the high particulate and radiation density.

Answer 6

It would probably be the same brightness, but the patterns of the stars would change, so no more "Orion's Belt" and the "Big Dipper"... we'd have to make up new "connect the dots" pictures for our sea captains.

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Answer 7

yup