What is the Milky Way? | Astronomy Essentials
Posted by Andy Briggs in Astronomy Essentials | Space | February 16, 2021 When someone says “Milky Way,” do you think of the starry pathway across our sky, or of the great pinwheel-shaped galaxy in space? Both are correct! View at EarthSky Community Photos. | Michael Zuber caught the bright planets Jupiter and Saturn – above the building in this photo – near the starry band of the Milky Way, from Terlingua, Texas, on November 11, 2020. Thank you, Michael. Do you think of the Milky Way as a starry band across a dark night sky? Or do you think of it as a great spiral galaxy...
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