For as long as we’ve been human, we’ve looked to the sky to find ourselves. Ever-increasing light pollution threatens not just our sense of identity, but our relationship with the whole biosphere.
We are in it, at the edge, so any face on views where you can see the spiral are artists’ impressions, but you can see it side on, more so in the southern hemisphere without light pollution, as a line of stars across the sky.
I didn’t know you can see Milky Way. I saw some photos online that I thought are just made up artworks for quite a long time
We are in it, at the edge, so any face on views where you can see the spiral are artists’ impressions, but you can see it side on, more so in the southern hemisphere without light pollution, as a line of stars across the sky.
We’re about two thirds the way out on one of the arms. We aren’t at the edge.
Ok fine, not quite at the edge, but towards the edge. We’re not at the centre, for sure.
we are in it, but we can see the narrow profile of the galactic disk in the sky.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milky_Way
https://youtu.be/1zJ9FnQXmJI?si=SsPpbYOVT3fue8Z-