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I know it's kind of late now that Halo 3 has been out for almost 3 years. But anyways, after seeing the latest Halo: Reach trailer (Battle Begins), I'm 95% sure that the planet at the end of Halo 3 is in fact Reach. At the beginning of the Halo: Reach trailer, you see some nebula, and then you fly through that nebula to see the planet Reach. Well at the Halo 3 Legendary Ending, you also see a similar nebula. In fact, both planets are surrounded by nebula.
Take a look at this video of the Halo 3 Legendary Ending:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LPOwtdatMWM&feature=relate d
If you pause at exactly 0:30, you can see a little bit of the surface of the planet. You can see that there is a giant circle on the planet that could possibly be a crater of some sort. In the Halo: Reach trailer, the planet at the beginning also has a giant crater that's roughly the same size as the circular object on the planet in Halo 3.
Now as for why the planet in Halo 3 looks like it has night lights or city lights, well there are two possible explanations for that. The first is that the covenant glassed reach so the surface being "glassed" would be a bit more reflective around the edges of objects and as the sun was rising, its light was being reflected off the edge of the crater and other terrain on the planet. The second explanation is that those lights were really night lights/city lights. If that's true and that planet really is Reach, then it would mean Master Chief time traveled to the past. The time travel theory isn't as bizarre as it sounds. We know that Master Chief's ship was travelling through a portal at the end of Halo 3. It wasn't whether only half the ship made it through when it collapsed, or only half the ship made it out before it collapsed. Now we know that the Halo at the Ark was fired since it was too far out of the galaxy to trigger the other Halo rings. If Master Chief was anywhere close to the Halo ring when it fired, he wouldn't have survived. Clearly he did survive. That suggests that Master Chief's ship did completely go into the portal. Therefore, the portal would've collapsed while his end of the ship was still inside. What effect that would have is beyond me. But because wormholes literally bend the fabric of space and time, send Master Chief back in time through the collapsed portal isn't really outlandish.