how can one photograph his own galaxy?

Question

whenever we photograph something we take the camera away from the object, but how can then this be possible in the case of our own milky way?
i mean we have never been outside our galaxy so how come that is possible?
are all the photographs fake?

Answer 1

We don't have photo's just drawings based on what we can measure from inside it. I've neve sen a Milky Way photo from the outside.

Answer 2

We can photograph the Milky Way galaxy from the "inside", but you are correct, we cannot take a photograph of the Milky Way from outside our galaxy with any camera at this time.

Often, when someone shows a picture of "the Milky Way galaxy" from the outside, they are showing either:

1) a photo of another spiral galaxy that would look very much like the Milky Way, or

2) a computer-generated version of what the Milky Way would look like from the outside. We know the distances and directions to most objects in our own galaxy, so we can assemble a pretty darned accurate three-dimensional computer model of what our galaxy looks like. From there, making a "photo" is simple!

Answer 3

Of course we have no pictures of the Milky Way from outside--human instrumentation has barely made it to the out reaches of the Solar System; outside the Milky Way is a million times further.

A wide-angle photo taken toward the galactic center does, however, look a lot like a picture of an edge-on galaxy. The field of view of such a picture needs to be 90 degrees or more, so what is needed is a long exposure on a small camera (not the Hubble, which has a field of view of only a few minutes of arc).

Answer 4

our sun is at the edge of the milky way galaxy....infact on a adark and clear nite one can even see a part of the CENTER of the galaxy...which is very bright .. thus when sumone shows u a photograph of the milky way ... its not a photograph of the entire galaxy...but of the center of the galaxy

Answer 5

actually, you can take the photo of your house outside from the inside if you know that the wood, or cement in your house is having the same depth at all places.
thats much the same in the galaxy case. we can form a 3D image from the inside and that is pretty much more accurate and easier than if the photo is taken from outside. because, when we are inside the galaxy, we know the minutest of details which are very difficult to get from the outside. secondly, we can get an image from every angle from the inside which, to get from the outside is truly difficult cuz you gotta go around the galaxy, sounds impossible.

Answer 6

Have you ever taken a picture of the inside of your house? We take pictures from the inside looking out - sort of. We are close to the edge of the galaxy, so we can get a pretty good idea of what most of it looks like. That, and it is so big that being on Earth gives us a really good look at it anyway.

Answer 7

We see it from inside. The Milky Way is a band of light completely encircling the sky, which is what you would expect to see from inside the flattened disk of a spiral galaxy.

Answer 8

We can't take photos of the whole Milky Way, as we are in it, but we can take pictures of other galaxies.

All the photos of our own galaxy are just pictures of part of it, not the whole thing.

Answer 9

WE can only extrapolate what our galaxy looks like.
It is a spiral like many others so they give us an idea what the milky way looks like from the outside.

Answer 10

it is not a photograph. it is an artist's rendering,or computer simulation based on direction and distance of the stars.