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We are inside the Milky Way galaxy, and so it is difficult to tell exactly what it looks like from the outside - because we aren't "outside."
Think of it like this: If you are inside your house and never went outside, you could still look out the windows and see other houses. But you wouldn't be able to SEE your house. You could figure it out, by drawing a diagram - but it isn't the same thing as seeing it from the outside.
From Earth, we see thousands upon thousands of stars. With big telescopes, we can also see other things between the stars, and some of those things are other galaxies.
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Some galaxies are hard to see because dense groupings of stars and nebulae in the Milky Way are in the way. But given that, we can see a dozen or so "satellite" galaxies of the Milky Way, and the next closest galaxies are those in the Andromeda group, some 2 million light-years away. This means that the light we see left Andromeda more than two million years ago. We are seeing them as they were that long ago. However, galaxies persist for billions of years, so they are likely very little changed from what they looked like then.
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∙ 8y ago
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∙ 9y agoBecause civilized man hasn't been around long enough to receive the images.
If NASA had the technology to build a space ship that could travel at the speed of light (which they don't), it would take that craft 25,000 years to exit the galaxy. It would take an additional 25,000 years to receive the first pictures. For a perspective on our current technology: In 1977 the Voyager 1 spacecraft was launched on a mission to explore the outer boundaries of our solar system; it finally left our solar system in June of 2005, after 28 years in space.
In addition to this wonderfully answered comment I'd like to say that Voyager 1 travels at speeds upwards of 35,000 mph. Another thought to dwell on is that closer to approaching the speed of light time begins to slow down for the traveler.
the speed of light = 670 616 629 miles per hour
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∙ 12y agoFirstly, a complete picture of the Milky Way Galaxy can't be reproduced, as we are in it. You need a telescope that is directly above it and you can't do that realistically.
Secondly, most impressions of galaxies are not taken through a picture, but is edited to form a more realistic image. Thus, most pictures of the Milky Way Galaxy were only impressions and the normal orientation is sideward.
Thirdly, the Milky Way Galaxy is so large, that for it to fit any paper in this world, a satellite would have to be trillions away from the galaxy, similar to how you need to go far away from a mountain to see its entire shape. That satellite hasn't existed yet. And if a satellite did exist, the only thing it can conjure is the side image, because the side has a smaller length than that of the top.
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How do you get pictures of the Milky Way galaxy?
This question can be looked at two different ways.Where can you find pictures of the Milky WayHow do you get a picture of the Milky Way - if we're in it!!So two questions in one.The best place to get pictures of the Milky Way is to go to google images and type Milky Way. Or for a great picture see related link.Parts of the Milky Way Galaxy are visible from Earth, but when you see a picture of the complete Milky Way, it's just an artists rendition of what the Milky Way Galaxy should look like, based on local observations and looking at the Andromeda galaxy, which is very similar to ours.
When was the spiral galaxy discovered?
It wasn't until telescopes that people realized that the band of light reaching across the sky, called the Milky Way since ancient times, was actually made of an immense number of stars. Astronomers still did not really understand what they were seeing until the 20th century, however.Until the 1920s, astronomers thought that what we now know to be our Milky Way Galaxy to be the entire universe, and that our whole universe was a few thousand light years across. Other "spiral nebulae" had been observed, but they were thought to be new star systems forming nearby. After Hubble (the astronomer, not the telescope named for him) observed Cepheid variable stars in the Great Nebula in Andromeda, he realized that the Andromeda "Nebula" was immensley distant, and ennormous in size, and, by extension, the other "spiral nebulae" were also huge and incomprehensibly distant. He called them "island universes", and realized that we were also in one, and that the 'Milky Way' band of stars across the sky was our galaxy's disk, seen from inside. So, even though people have been calling the band of light across the sky the Milky Way for thousands of years, it wasn't until the 1920's that we understood what it was--our galaxy!We can see only a small part of our galaxy in visible light. Since the 1960s, radio astronomers have mapped out the structure of the entire galaxy, and shown it to be a large spiral galaxy of about 100 billion stars; we are in one of the spiral arms about 8 kiloparsecs (25,000 light years) from the center of our galaxy, more or less halfway from the center to the edge.I think Gallileo came across the milky way in the 1600's. The cloudy band we now call the Milky Way has been known since ancient times (it's referenced in various cultural mythologies, for example). However, it was only in the past few centuries that it was properly identified as a galaxy, specifically our own.== == The Milky Way's true age hasn't been discovered. The only knowledge we have is of a meteorite which dates 4.7 billion years ago. And yes, Galileo discovered the odd colors of the Milky Way in the 1600's. If we could escape our galaxy, scientists believe it would look like M-31(The Great Galaxy of Andromeda)I would hesitate to talk about a "discovery" of something that is in plain sight - that people have been seeing for ... well, for as long as there have been people. Like the Sun, or the Moon, or trees, or animals - or the Milky Way.
How is it that Astronomers can point to the Earth and our solar system in photos of the Milky Way as surely these were taken from the Earth's point of view looking outwards?
Those aren't photos you're looking at, just drawings. Or the picture may use a photograph of another galaxy as a proxy for ours (artistic license).
What colourless gas which turns lime water milky and is taken in by plants during photosynthesis?
co2 its true
Have astronauts or satellites visited sun flares?
no but they have taken pictures
How do you get pictures of the Milky Way galaxy?
This question can be looked at two different ways.Where can you find pictures of the Milky WayHow do you get a picture of the Milky Way - if we're in it!!So two questions in one.The best place to get pictures of the Milky Way is to go to google images and type Milky Way. Or for a great picture see related link.Parts of the Milky Way Galaxy are visible from Earth, but when you see a picture of the complete Milky Way, it's just an artists rendition of what the Milky Way Galaxy should look like, based on local observations and looking at the Andromeda galaxy, which is very similar to ours.
Have the telescopes in outer space taken pictures of planets in our milky way?
yes
How is it that we have photographs of the Milky Way galaxy as if it were a distant entity yet the photos were taken from earth which resides in it?
We can not take a photo of the Milky Way as if we were at some distance from it. However we do know that the Milky Way is a Bard Spiral Galaxy with, we believe, 4 distinct spiral arms. This information enables artists to depict what the Milky Way would look like form a distance but these depictions are not photographs.Some good photographs of how the Milky Way looks from Earth are linked to below.
How to fix blurry pictures taken from my Samsung galaxy s3?
Pictures on your Samsung Galaxy s3 appear to be blurry due them being compressed by your telecom provider being sent to your phone but if you turn on your WIFI the pictures will be sent directly to your phone and therefore most likely not blurry.
Why is the Milky Way bar called the Milky Way bar?
Its called the milky way because it was taken from a famous malted milkshake.
When was Wish I'd Taken Pictures created?
Wish I'd Taken Pictures was created in 1996.
Why does the sun circle the Milky Way?
it is so we get hours,days,weeks,months,years and leap years Well, no. That is what happens when the planet earth orbits the sun. Our sun doesn't exactly orbit the Milky Way. Rather, it travels along with it along one edge.
When was the spiral galaxy discovered?
It wasn't until telescopes that people realized that the band of light reaching across the sky, called the Milky Way since ancient times, was actually made of an immense number of stars. Astronomers still did not really understand what they were seeing until the 20th century, however.Until the 1920s, astronomers thought that what we now know to be our Milky Way Galaxy to be the entire universe, and that our whole universe was a few thousand light years across. Other "spiral nebulae" had been observed, but they were thought to be new star systems forming nearby. After Hubble (the astronomer, not the telescope named for him) observed Cepheid variable stars in the Great Nebula in Andromeda, he realized that the Andromeda "Nebula" was immensley distant, and ennormous in size, and, by extension, the other "spiral nebulae" were also huge and incomprehensibly distant. He called them "island universes", and realized that we were also in one, and that the 'Milky Way' band of stars across the sky was our galaxy's disk, seen from inside. So, even though people have been calling the band of light across the sky the Milky Way for thousands of years, it wasn't until the 1920's that we understood what it was--our galaxy!We can see only a small part of our galaxy in visible light. Since the 1960s, radio astronomers have mapped out the structure of the entire galaxy, and shown it to be a large spiral galaxy of about 100 billion stars; we are in one of the spiral arms about 8 kiloparsecs (25,000 light years) from the center of our galaxy, more or less halfway from the center to the edge.I think Gallileo came across the milky way in the 1600's. The cloudy band we now call the Milky Way has been known since ancient times (it's referenced in various cultural mythologies, for example). However, it was only in the past few centuries that it was properly identified as a galaxy, specifically our own.== == The Milky Way's true age hasn't been discovered. The only knowledge we have is of a meteorite which dates 4.7 billion years ago. And yes, Galileo discovered the odd colors of the Milky Way in the 1600's. If we could escape our galaxy, scientists believe it would look like M-31(The Great Galaxy of Andromeda)I would hesitate to talk about a "discovery" of something that is in plain sight - that people have been seeing for ... well, for as long as there have been people. Like the Sun, or the Moon, or trees, or animals - or the Milky Way.
What is a large group of stars?
A large star is almost any star compared to us. There is no definition for a large or huge star for exactly that reason. Taking the relative dimensions from the smallest to the largest star, then our Sun would probably fit that category.
Are space pictures true pictures?
Yes taken by satellites such as the Hubble
Where can you find pictures of all the different kinds of cameras?
Pictures of the cameras themselves, or pictures that were taken from the camera? If it is pictures of the cameras themselves, Google Images works fine. For pictures that were taken from the camera, go to Flickr and type in the camera model to see its pictures.
When was the first picture taken via satellite?
August 14, 1959. The pictures were taken by the satellite, Explorer 6. It was launched by the United States. These were the first pictures taken of the Earth from space.
