Are all bright stars which we see with naked eyes memebrs of the Milky Way?

Answer 1

Only 3 objects outside the Milky Way can be seen with the naked eye. In the northern hemisphere there is the Andromeda Galaxy (M31), and in the southern hemisphere, the Magellanic clouds, which are small irregular galaxies very close to the Milky Way. Andromeda appears as just another star, unless you view it through a telescope. The clouds are very faint, and appear as fuzzy blobs. Note that the 3 galaxies appear as single stars; you can't distinguish individual stars within them with the naked eye.

Every other visible star, and all the bright ones, are somewhere within the Milky Way.

Answer 2

Certainly most of the stars we see are from the Milky Way, but we can also see some other galaxies with the naked eye. Check out Andromeda Galaxy and the Magellanic Clouds on Wikipedia.

Added: Yeah, I guess the previous answer is more correct: Probably you can't resolve a single star from outside the Milky Way by naked eye.

Answer 3

No the milky way is a band of stars that you can see as a pale strip in a clear sky it is mostly faint stars but it is in a band because it is an arm of our own spiral galaxy. Many of the other stars are not even part of the galaxy we are in, the stars far north and south are outside of the milky way

Answer 4

"Milky Way" can mean two things: the band of stars visible in the night sky, or the entire galaxy in which we live. All the individual stars we see in the sky are part of the Milky Way Galaxy. Other galaxys may be visible to the naked eye, but they don't look like stars (they are fuzzy blobs). Of course stars not in the band of stars called the Milky Way are not in the Milky Way band of stars, but they are in our galaxy.

Answer 5

Those stars which you see with your naked eye in the night sky all belong to the Milky Way Galaxy.

Answer 6

The only time you may be able to see a star that is not in the Milky Way or gravitationally bound to the Milky Way would be in the case of a supernova explosion. If there were a significant, type IIa supernova in the andromeda galaxy, you may be able to see it. Supernovae temporarily outshine their entire galaxy.

Answer 7

yes...without a good(like Hubble good) telescope you would not be able to resolve an individual star that is not in our galaxy or the Magellanic clouds(little galaxies that orbit ours...but only visible from the southern Hemisphere)....unless one of them exploded...
...So assuming you live in the Northern hemisphere....yes.