Source: A fairly popular astronomy guy on TikTok/YT
In: Planetary Science
The nearest galaxy to us (not counting dwarf galaxies like the Magellan clouds) is Andromeda.
Andromeda is visible to the naked eye. Barely.
It looks more like just another star or a tiny smear if you look closely.
That is what you would see if you were out in the intergalactic void.
One or maybe two tiny smudges in an otherwise empty sky.
If you were really unlucky you would see nothing at all.
The local group of galaxies is fairly densely populated with galaxies. In other places galaxies can be far further apart.
The space between galaxies and between galaxy groups is never completely empty, but distances can be so big that a lone star or even a loan galaxy can be easily lost in the distance.
Of course with a telescope you could see more if you were close enough.
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