Prediction 2012 – Life at the Milky Way’s Center

While waiting for clouds to clear during a night of sky observing during this year’s Winter Star Party in the Florida Keys, we got into a discussion about the Milky Way’s galactic center.

Here on earth, we live in a part of the Milky Way which is not very dense with stars. We’re near the end of one of our galaxy’s spiral arms in an area of few stars and a lot of stellar dust. Therefore, our skies look mainly dark with pin-pricks of stars.

However, if we lived on a planet in the center of the Milky Way galaxy, where it is crowded with stars, our night skies would be as brilliant as our day skies.

Here’s a link to a picture of the many stars in the Milky Way Center.