Can you see the milky way from earth?

The summer Milky Way will look brighter in the Northern Hemisphere. Most noticeably you should be able to see the Great Rift in good dark skies. This dark lane in between Cygnus and Scutum is where a string of dense interstellar clouds block the view of more distant stars. read more

Stars in the Milky Way Galaxy. The Milky Way contains at least 100 billion stars and may have up to 400 billion stars. The exact number is not known. Milky Way Galaxy from Earth. Earth, along with the Solar System, is situated in the Milky Way galaxy, orbiting about 28,000 light years from the center of the galaxy. read more

In fact, the few thousand stars we can see of the Milky Way with our naked eye are only about 0.000003% of the 200-400 billion stars that inhabit the spiral! To see a picture of the entire Milky Way from the surface of the Earth at once, you have to create a mosaic of photographs taken at different times. read more