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> Inside a 'thick' nebula, obscuring all other entities in the sky except for their own star and planets. Imagine an interstellar object like Oumuamua passing t

> Inside a 'thick' nebula, obscuring all other entities in the sky except for their own star and planets. Imagine an interstellar object like Oumuamua passing through and the complete perplexity of a civilization observing it and wondering where it could have come from. This is almost the exact premise of Life, the Universe and Everything, the third book in the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series.

christkv 4y ago
The start of the cricket wars.
nuccy 4y ago
Thickness (or rather its optical depth) of this nebula would be wavelength dependent - in IR you could see through all the distant stars, while in all other wavelength, including X-rays, that nebula would glow.