How We See
How can we see our own galaxy?
I know its kinda silly question, but i am so curious. How can we see our own galaxy? It’s like you’re inside your house,but you wanna see your house from above by yourselves.
The only way is with a mathematical model at this time. maybe someday we will have a craft that can fly outside the galaxy for pictures, but till then we need to take the horizontal placement of the stars we can see, and convert it into a vertical representation of star placement using measurements from several sites… which they are now doing, for they just learned that the Milky Way is a full third larger than they thought it was… Now for a life size portrait!
ME!
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Beau Lotto: Optical illusions show how we see