Source: A fairly popular astronomy guy on TikTok/YT
In: Planetary Science
(Edited to include galaxy corrections, thanks commenters)
This is with the naked eye, I’m assuming?
Galaxies are really big and bright, but space is even bigger.
With the naked eye, in a dark region of earth, we can see a few galaxies, such as the Andromeda (our closest neighbor), the Triangulum, and some dwarf galaxies that orbit the Milky Way (our galaxy).
But galaxies tend to cluster together, leaving voids with very few galaxies, and there are certainly spaces you could find in the universe where *all* the galaxies are farther away than the visible ones is from us, too far for any to be visible with the naked eye.
On the other hand, if your spot “between the galaxies” is say right between Andromeda and our galaxy, the Milky Way, you should be able to see both of them.
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