Is all of our universe… lit? Can you be hurtling through space and accidentally fly head first into a planet because oops you didn’t have your headlights on?
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If you were hurtling through the Milky Way, you would see basically the same view as our night sky, but all around you, and with many more/brighter stars (no light pollution from the ground to obscure them.
It would be equally beautiful and terrifying, I think.
But the Milky Way is a galaxy. Most of space is the in-between nothingness outside of galaxies. If you weren’t near anything at all, the only “stars” you see would themselves be entire galaxies.
You could ram into a planet. That’s what an asteroid impact is…but in this case, you are the asteroid. If you were in a ship and had controls, I think we can also assume you will have sensors to see the planet coming. There are rogue planets that drift all alone, so sure, hypothetically we can say that if you have no sensors and are *extremely unlucky* you could randomly hit a planet. But this would also mean entering a galaxy first, and surely you would know you were at least doing that.
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