What's so milky about the way?

Answer 1

If you get to go camping or are just in a place with a dark sky, you can see it. It's beautiful.

http://epod.usra.edu/archive/images/main_summermilkyway_gross.jpg

That is a link to a picture of it. I hope you get to see it one day.

Answer 2

All About the Milky Way

The Milky Way is simply the common name for the galaxy that encompasses our solar system. The phrase Milky Way came from the band of white light that can be seen across the celestial sphere visible from Earth. This celestial sphere contains a host of various stars and other solar matter. The discovery of the Milky Way is credited to the ancient Greek philosopher Democritus, who was the first person in recorded history to make the assumption that the Milky Way existed and was made up of billions of distant stars.

The Milky Way is believed to be more than 13 billion years old, which is estimated to be virtually as old as the entire Universe itself. The Milky Way galaxy is actually just one of billions of galaxies contained within the Universe, although very little is currently known about its seemingly infinite galactic counterparts.

The Milky Way galaxy has a whopping circumference of roughly 250-300 thousand light years! Within the main body of the Milky Way there are estimated to be between 200 and 400 billion stars. The Earth’s solar system is believed to exist very close to the Galaxy’s galactic plane, due to the fact that the Milky Way essentially divides the night sky into two virtually equal hemispheres.

Scientists now estimate that in roughly three billion years, the Milky Way galaxy will actually collide with the Andromeda Galaxy, which is very slowly working its way towards us at a modest speed of about 1,800 kilometers per minute.

For more facts and information on the Milky Way galaxy, click on any of the Milky Way articles, Milky Way pictures, or any of the other numerous interactive features below.

Answer 3

If you see it from a place where it gets very dark at night, it looks like a streak of white across the sky...

Like spilt milk.

Haven't seen it that way in years, but I just did this summer from Tofino - small town in Canada.

Answer 4

Actually it is more like a haze than milk .The Southern Hemisphere is the best place to view it.

Answer 5

It is a large white strip of millions of bright stars,it wouldn't sound good to call it the molasses way.
Some one might talk about you. :)