The Milky Way Returns to Light Up Summer Skies | News World

The galaxy’s brilliant core, home to billions of stars, can now be seen arching across the sky in a dazzling display best viewed during the dark, early morning hours. From late spring through August, stargazers in the Northern Hemisphere can witness the galaxy’s densest and brightest region rise in the southeast and sweep across the southern horizon before setting in the southwest.

Milky Way Galaxy

The Milky Way is the galaxy that we live in, a vast, spiral-shaped collection of stars, planets, gas, dust, and dark matter. It contains over 100 billion stars, including our own Sun, and stretches about 100,000 light-years across.

From Earth, when looking up at a clear, dark sky far from city lights, the Milky Way appears as a hazy, milky band stretching across the night sky.

That glow is the light from billions of distant stars packed so closely together that they blur into a faint streak to the naked eye…more

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