How do we have pictures of the milky way?

Answer 1

We don't. What we have our artists conceptions and pictures of galaxies that we think look very much like our galaxy would... I use to think we had pictures of our own galaxy too, until I took astronomy one semester lol.

Answer 2

Yes, we can get pictures of the Milky Way - not as a whole, but much of it because we are positioned out in one of the spiral arms.

It is like taking a picture of an airplane from somewhere down the wing - it's a wide shot so you probably have to take a few pics and stick them together.

Answer 3

One guy from Russia travelled to Andromeda Galaxy and took pictures of the Milky Way.... lol... Ask yourself dude, how could you take pictures of your palm if the camera is in your hand? The picture that we saw was just an illustration based on the assumption that the galaxy that we have is spiral.

Answer 4

I have taken pictures of the Milky Way. You can use an ordinary camera, but use a long time exposure because it is quite dim. Of course, all photographs are seeing it from inside, just like you do with your eyes on a dark night. Views from outside are all artist's conceptions.

Answer 5

We can use the telescope, locate Andromeda galaxy (milky way) to the maximum magnification and use night camera aligned to it's viewer. Voila! you got the image of a milky way.

Answer 6

While we can't get a true picture of our galaxy from outside of it for obvious reasons, we can map the plane of the Milky Way in 360 degrees by taking photos of the night sky with the Hubble Telescope. We know the Milky Way is what's known as a "barred spiral" galaxy and thus it would resemble other barred spirals that we can see outside of our own galaxy. All we have to do is plot where stuff is in our own galaxy onto a galactic disc resembling a barred spiral galaxy of similar size (about 100,000 light years in diameter). For example, we can place the constellation Orion (with its supergiant stars visible from outside the galaxy) in one of the spiral arms of our galaxy. Our solar system happens to be located in this "arm". There are panoramic composite photos of our galaxy's plane, and I've seen such photos in Astronomy Magazine, to name just one source. We know we're about 70,000 light years distant from our galactic core, putting us in the the outer areas of our galaxy. Or the "backwaters" as I like to say. The Andromeda Galaxy (our large neighbor galaxy) is similar to our galaxy. Just a lot bigger and brighter. Radio telescopes let us explore our galactic core, deducing a large black hole at the center (Google Sagittarius* -- pronounced "Sagittarius Star"). So, to summarize, since we can see the plane, or disc, of the Milky Way (that white wisp of what looks like a thin cloud stretching across the sky on a very dark night), we can map constellations and other asterisms onto that plane, and computer-model rotate that plane to give us a picture of the spiral arms and what they contain. Hope this helps.

Answer 7

Combination of what's been said. We have pictures of other galaxies that we think look like our own.

We also can see a fair amount of the center and arms of our galaxy from Earth, even with the naked eye (in a dark place on a clear night you can see that glowing stripe through the sky with many stars in an almost north-south direction.

A lot of the light and radiation from it is obscured by dust clouds but we can look at it in other wavelengths than visible light to combat this.

Answer 8

You can see the Milky Way without a telescope on any clear night, it's beautiful.

Answer 9

VIews of galaxies and things we cant possibly see are surmised via measurements or radio or other signals that are used to help define shape,light, heat,etc... doing all this gives us a way to put together a artistic view that is highly likely to be very accurate.

some of those measurements were proven or revised thanks to the Hubble Telescope.

Answer 10

Someone in a space ship probably took a picture and sent it to NASA or something before they got sucked up.Or they took it from far