Atlantis and Hubble (viewed from earth)

[drizzle]

Never? What about those thaken by M31 inhabitants?

nah, those were fake, it was obvious man, they were photos of their dashed trash

 

[Sorry!]

ww

 

[russ_watters]

and the bottom line of this is that there’s no real photo of the Milky Way and will never be [of the entire galaxy]

Correct. And one more thing: The way you worded your original question sort of implies you've seen a lot of photos purported to be of the Milky Way Galaxy. That would surprise me - there aren't a lot of simulations of it out there. Sometimes when a news article has something about our galaxy, they'll include a photo, but it seems to me that most of the time they use a photo of some random sprial galaxy and are relatively clear that that's what they've done. For example, here is an article with two photos:

A galaxy like[emphasis added] the Milky Way as viewed from the top, and the actual Milky Way as viewed in the infrared [from the edge, as we see it]

http://www.windows.ucar.edu/tour/link=/the_universe/Milkyway.html

 

[Theelectricchild]

Correct. And one more thing: The way you worded your original question sort of implies you've seen a lot of photos purported to be of the Milky Way Galaxy. That would surprise me - there aren't a lot of simulations of it out there. Sometimes when a news article has something about our galaxy, they'll include a photo, but it seems to me that most of the time they use a photo of some random sprial galaxy and are relatively clear that that's what they've done. For example, here is an article with two photos: http://www.windows.ucar.edu/tour/link=/the_universe/Milkyway.html

He's most likely talking about the artist conceptions he's seeing that show up in an image search. I just searched for "Milky Way" in Google Images and it's amazing how many "spiral" images show up.

 

[drizzle]

He's most likely talking about the artist conceptions he's seeing that show up in an image search. I just searched for "Milky Way" in Google Images and it's amazing how many "spiral" images show up.

right, and for once I thought I was talking odd, by the way it’s [she] you mean, anyway nice to meet you