During a beautiful clear, moonless night, we admire a vast whitish trail, as if milk had been spilled in the Sky, this vast extended area is called the Milky Way. The Milky Way is made up of a myriad of stars.
Photo taken on a tripod, despite public lighting, digital cameras are able to bring out the brighter parts rich in stars with darker parts of dust bands of the Milky Way
The Milky Way is thickest near the constellations Sagittarius and Scorpio. In this area is the center of the Milky Way, nicknamed The Galaxy.
The resemblance is striking when comparing the center of the Milky Way with the central part of a distant spiral galaxy seen from the edge (like NGC4565 Coma Berenices)
The Galaxy (The Milky Way) is our galaxy. We see it from the inside, from an external arm. We can observe everything that constitutes a spiral galaxy, that is to say stars of all types, star clusters and gas nebulae...
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