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RE: Beautiful Corner of the Universe - The Andromeda Galaxy
The best way to see it in the sky, by the way, is to not look directly at it. It's usually so faint that you can pick it up when it's in your peripheral vision, but difficult to see when you look straight on. :)
Nice, thanks! Forgot to mention it, since being used to using it you can forget that people do not know about that trick. :)
They'd probably figure it out, but what I'm curious to know is why our eyes work like that.
I might be wrong, but on one of our classes we learned about vision and human eye. I think it is because of distribution of rods and cons in the eye. Rods are responsible for low light and basically black and white vision (thats why we can't differentiate colors in the dark). And Cons and rods are distributed on different places in the eye - being more rods in the peripheral of an eye.
We need some medical stuff here :)
I have no idea if you're right, but it makes sense!