Is every star we can see with the naked eye located somewhere in our galaxy, the milky way?
2007-04-26 05:59:48 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
Nope, most of the 100 million stars in our galaxy are not visible in the sky. It is probable much less than 1% of them are visible by the naked eye.
2007-04-26 06:02:07 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 3⤋
We are located on the edge of the galaxy and can see about 30,000 light years toward the centre with the naked eye. The galaxy itself is about 100,000 light years across. No one has or ever will see any other galaxies with the naked eye. Everything you see is part of the Milky Way
2007-04-26 07:04:24 · answer #2 · answered by StarDuster 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, the stars we see with the naked eye at night are all in the Milky Way, however, given the huge size of the Milky way, we are only seeing a small portion of the Milky Way.
2007-04-26 06:04:33 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
i might risk a wager that maximum folk in the international right now have never and could never see the Milky way. i'm fortunate to stay in a rural area the place i'm able to work out it any sparkling moonless evening, yet for many of my existence i've got lived the place it might desire to not be considered. Observers interior the U.ok. have particularly some obstacles to seeing the Milky way. Clouds, haze, fog, and severe mild pollution make it a complicated objective. the final probability is interior the least populated aspects of the rustic, rather crucial Wales and northern Scotland. This map of sunshine pollution in Europe ca functionality a handbook. Be grateful your do not stay in crucial Europe!
2016-10-30 08:55:35 · answer #4 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes. The only objects I've seen in the night sky outside our own galaxy are the clouds of Magellan and the Andromeda galaxy, which are themselves whole galaxies and we can't distinguish their individual stars.
Even the stars you see that are away from the main band in the night sky are part of the whole disc, just closer. Stevers was right that we can't see all of the stars in our galaxy, but that wasn't what you asked.
2007-04-26 06:05:30 · answer #5 · answered by ? 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
By definition, yes. We can see other objects that are not stars that are outside the Milky Way, such as nebulae and other galaxies.
2007-04-26 06:04:22 · answer #6 · answered by JLynes 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, except for the stars we see that are actually other galaxies.
2007-04-26 06:04:26 · answer #7 · answered by lunatic 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Mostly yes, but not too sure. I tried researching the answer given by an astro-physicist on this topic but my internet is too slow.
2007-04-26 06:05:15 · answer #8 · answered by Swamy 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋