Earthlings have always looked up, wondering what is out there. But what if some astronomers on a planet around some other star gazed our way?

This is what they might see if they had an observatory equal to the Hubble Space Telescope.

While the other images in this presentation are perhaps more imaginative, this one is a direct computer interpretation of actual dust observations, put together by Jer-Chyi Liou. It illustrates how fine the line can be between science and art.