is the photograph underneath the galaxy or over it

[raaaid]

its a matter of knowing the right 3d perespective

[raaaid]

oh man if you had a perception you cant deny which wildly contradicts the aceepted reality what would you think

[xnomad]

Well it's Andromeda and a spiral galaxy. Obviously the lower half is nearest the centre, the upper half is farther away. That's why some of the stars above are obscured by the centre as they are behind it.

[raaaid]

well but without perceiving depth you cant be really sure

maybe the galaxy has some deformated rings

though id say the position its as it looks

[Voyager]

Remember, the enemy's gate is down.

[Kodoss]

It's the same as asking "The southpole is actually magnetic north?"

It all defers from the viewpoint. The earth is round, you know?!

[Skoshi Tiger]

It's all relative.

[raaaid]

the odd thing is that is extreamly rare for me perceive depth in real life

but i do quite often on tv and most time on youtube

seems real life stereo is very wide, but on screen the smaller the window the softer the stereo

the first thing ill do when i recover my depth perception is go to the mountains to wacth the stars

probably ill have to take my car but with a bit of like i might be able to se the stars over the clouds

edit:

here one more difficult

can you tell whats close and far?

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[Katana1000S]

I'm not sure I understand the question?

Thats the M31 Andromada galaxy for sure (a great picture) I guess many of those stars are in our own Milky Way Galaxy and we are looking through them to M31.

I'm a bit of a casual astronomer and one of the first wow moments was when I found this galaxy on my telescope.

I guess most folk know that this galaxy is part of our local group that is not moving away from us, its close enough (still about 2.5 million light years away) for our mutual gravity to have an effect, eventually that galaxy and our own will merge, we wont be around and probably not our Earth or solar system, but what a sight it would be as it got close.