How do we get photos of the entire milkyway?

Question

Are the photos taken by a probe or something blasted into outer space? Actually out of the milkyway? If so how far will these probes go and will they keep sending photos back until they break or crash?

Answer 1

As we're inside the galaxy and any probe we could launch with current technology would take many millions or billions of years to get outside it, this is not feasible. The best that astronomers can do is try to figure out the structure of the galaxy and show us photos of other galaxies that they conclude are similar to ours.

Answer 2

Nope, there is no possible way that the probes or something blasted into outer space actually escaped from the Milky Way. The farthest man-made object right now is not even outside our solar system, that's only around 10 light hours away from Earth. To be able to take a picture of the Milky Way, we need to get to at least 50000 light years from home, which is not possible at all. The pictures don't show the entire Milky Way, they just show the inner portions of it. Pictures of a complete Milky Way is either made by computer or it's the picture of another galaxy.

Answer 3

There are no pictures from outside of our galaxy. The furthest a probe has gotten away from earth is about 1% of a light year. That is clearly not far enough to take a picture of the whole galaxy. On the other hand, we have been able to map out the arms of the galaxy using radio and other means. That lets us know what type of galaxy we are in. Artist conceptions go from there (with some guidance from pictures we can take of other galaxies).

Answer 4

Observatories all over the world take millions of pictures of the night sky throughout the year. These images are then combined to create a digital image of the Milky Way.

Because of its size and limitations on space flight, we have not sent probes beyond the Milky Way. Based on our current technology, it could take 10 billion years for a probe to travel outside of the Milky Way. Once there. the radio signals that would be used to send back the image would travel at the speed of light and could take 500,000 to 1,000,000 years to return to earth.

Answer 5

There have been several "probes" sent out to the outreaches of the galaxy. Two in fact that were sent out in 1970 something, one in one direction and the other in the other direction.. They just made the news the other day something about some unknown forces pushing them off track. As far as the pictures of the milkey way, http://www.nasa.gov Is a great place to check, also
http://hubble.nasa.gov one more that you might like. http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/archivepix.html this one would be worth the bookmark.. as there is a new pic everyday.

Answer 6

we have not sent probes out of the milkyway, it is WAY too far for us to wait at the speeds probes can go.
so any pic of the milkyway u c is either fake, or another galaxy that looks like ours, or it will look like the beam of stars u c when u look up at night

Answer 7

Sometimes we just get a picture of a spiral galaxy that looks similar to the Milkey Way and say that's what the Milkey Way looks like, also since we're on the outer edges of the galaxy we can take photos directed twords the center.

Answer 8

Photos of the "Milky Way" is actually a photograph of one of the "spiral-arms" of our Galaxy. We cannot actually see the central "hub" of our galaxy because of our position in one of the Arms of the Milky Way Galaxy. When taking photographs of the stars (and/or including the Milky Way), you have to take a long exposure of the stars...anywhere from 5 minutes to more than an hour...and it can only be accomplished by setting-up the camera on a telescope that "moves" in time with the rotation of our planet (earth). If you take a long exposure which does NOT compensate with the rotation of the Earth, your picture, once developed, will show nothing but "streaks" of light on the photo. Since the Milky Way is very dim in regards to light, the only way to photograph it, is by a "time-exposure" which compensates with the rotation of the Earth.

Answer 9

the milky way galaxy is named after its thick cluster of stars when you see a picture that says milky way they are referring to this feature, how ever allot of books show the Andromeda galaxy, (a near twin of the milky way) to show how the milky way looks from afar

Answer 10

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