That's a good question. There's obviously more stars in the directions of the galactic plane (what we observe as the Milky Way), but the individual stars that we see in the night sky tend to only be the ones that are really close to us (relatively speaking). So it's a question of which effect dominates the other. I think it'd be interesting to see how well the distribution of stars fits a Poisson distribution.
Imagine you were one of the dots on the plane in the dot illustrations. Would the "constellation" of all the other dots from your position be Poisson distributed?
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That's a good question. There's obviously more stars in the directions of the galactic plane (what we observe as the Milky Way), but the individual stars that we see in the night sky tend to only be the ones that are really close to us (relatively speaking). So it's a question of which effect dominates the other. I think it'd be interesting to see how well the distribution of stars fits a Poisson distribution.
Imagine you were one of the dots on the plane in the dot illustrations. Would the "constellation" of all the other dots from your position be Poisson distributed?