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Nyx say: We sent out the Enterprise to do a selfie.
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Joshua say: There are no pictures of the milky way. That would be like trying to see your face without a reflection. It isn't possible. Those are all artist's renditions of what it probably looks like. Most galaxies our size are spiral, so it's safe to assume we're no different. And the part of our galaxy we can see looks spiral.
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Clive say: There aren't any. There are only computer models of what it MIGHT look like.
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marlies say: of course no real photos, it is a drawn model, based on the distances we know for a lot of stars, also those distances towards our milky way centre, even when we could not see it due to dust clouds, results in the place we must have in our galaxy, and we know the look of it because it's equally with the other galaxies we could see.
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Elaine say: Photos of the Milky Way taken from outside our galaxy do not exist. Astronomers use their research and use other barred spirals to construct computer models or artists' renderings of what the Milky Way would look like to an observer outside the galaxy. In the Southern Hemisphere the Milky Way, while it is the most conspicuous sight in the night sky is one of the spiral arms closer to the centre of the galaxy than we are.
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poornakumar b say: (Jokes apart) These are not 'authentic', but 'imagined' (even this takes a helluva lot of research & work) aided by the skills of the artists involved.
There can be a way. Find a star just outside the Galactic bulge, locate a planet & put a Camera (no movie camera needed, as stills at intervals would do). As we can't send commands from here (one way trip takes a good fraction of a hundred thousand years), stored programme of tasks (to be) done are to be sent aboard, along with. We might get pictures after say fifty thousand years (if we can sort all the hassles of such a distant Radio Communications that might involves sent signals at GigaWatts).
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