can you see the milky way with the naked eye?

Question

can you actually see the milky way in the sky in the us with just your naked eye? cause this dude said there places where you can go up in korea to see the stars and that he saw the milkyway in korea.

Answer 1

Yes you can. It is so sad that people today, who think they know all about space and astronomy from books, school and TV, actually know less about what the sky looks like than people 100 years ago did. The Milky Way is a band of light that crosses the entire sky and looks like a faintly glowing cloud. It is not even visible from a city today because the sky is lit up so brightly by the city lights that the faint Milky Way cannot be seen. You have to drive out into the dark country to see the sky the way it really is.
You must do this.
EVERYBODY READING THIS, GET IN A CAR AND DRIVE OUT TO THE COUNTRY AT NIGHT AND STOP AND GET OUT OF THE CAR AND LOOK AT THE SKY!

Answer 2

Find a chance on a clear night to go away from lights and look up. That big, cloudy string of stars stretching across the sky is the Milky Way. Quite a few other galaxies and nebulae are visible to the naked eye as well. For example: find the constellation of Orion. Just down from the belt, one of the "stars" that form Orion's sheath is actually a galaxy (it's the fuzzy, blob-like "star").

Answer 3

The Milky way is the galaxy in which WE are. The galaxy is flat and circular (like a disc). From the top, you can see branches twirling around the center. The bright ones are made of stars still burning and the dark ones in between are made of brown dwarves and other stars not burning anymore.
Since we ARE IN the Milky Way, we can see it. It looks like a band of many many stars across the sky. You can see it from anywhere on the planet, as long as there are not artificial sources of light (city, cars, houses...) to shine over it.
Remember that the galaxy is like a disc. Being inside it, if you look out, you'll see everything that's between you and the edge: lots and lots of stars!

Answer 4

Your friend is a bit confused. Our planet Earth, and our entire solar system is IN the Milky Way. The Milky Way is the name we call our Galaxy, which consists of aout 100 billion stars. So every star you see is in the Milky Way, it's just that in any location where there is no light pollution, you see MORE stars. Also, you can see more stars at higher elevations because the air is thinner and there is not as much humidity or oxygen molecules floating around, which also obscures your view.

Answer 5

Acually you can if your in a high enough place with a clear view of the stars. We are in the milky way and you could see it as a wide band of kind of dim light across the sky.

Answer 6

A hazy band of white light appearing across the celestial sphere visible from Earth, which is comprised of stars and other material lying within the galactic plane. The galaxy appears brightest in the direction of Sagittarius, towards the galactic center.

I saw it !! its something more than wonderful , you need a dark area .. the darker the more clear view !!!

Answer 7

Gee, who'd have thunk that the Milky Way was Korean?

ANYWHERE that's away from city lights and urban light pollution will allow you to see the Milky Way. It looks like a hazy thin cloud in the night sky:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milky_way

Answer 8

Yep, sure can on one of those very clear, dark nights. A dusty band of background light overhead. Can see it anywhere. No need to go to Korea. BTW.... if you know your constellations.. in the general direction of Sagittarious.. that's where the core of the galaxy is.

Answer 9

your in the milky way so yes

Answer 10

yes