Because there are a lot of them, and many of them are so far away that we don't see them as individual stars but rather as more of a vague glow.
The Milky Way appears as a hazy band of stars in the sky because we are viewing it edge-on from within the galaxy. The combined light of billions of distant stars, interstellar gas, and dust within the plane of the galaxy creates this band of light across the night sky.
The Milky Way galaxy is the name of the galaxy in which Earth resides. It is a barred spiral galaxy with billions of stars, including our sun. The name "Milky Way" comes from the band of hazy light created by stars in the galactic plane visible in the night sky.
Well just look at our sun i do hope you know that our galaxy is the milky way.
The Milky Way is the name of the galaxy in which we live.
people usually say milky white, because all the stars together look like milky white.
Yes, there are young stars in the Milky Way Galaxy.
The Milky Way is a huge group of stars, somewhere between 200 and 400 billion stars. The stars themselves, or the Milky Way in its entirety, is not in line with anything.
The Earth is in the Milky Way Galaxy. We can see stars at night, so yes.
Find Orion's Belt, and follow its line of stars down to the left and you will find Sirius. It is unmistakeable. It is easily visible in the winter but not summer. Altenatively, look for the brightest thing other than the moon, and you've found it.
like a long slightly collard cloud with many dim and bright stars. and if you are in the desert the milky way is breathtaking.
The milky way is not a constellation
The Milky Way is our galaxy.