Show The Milky Way The milky wa is a hazy somewhat somewhat somewhat some some- what irregular band banu of light about twenty degrees wide which completely completely completely com com- encircles the heavens It Itcan Itcan Itcan can be seen on on clear moonless summer evenings stretching entirely entire entire- ly across the northern sky The unaided eye gets the impression that the milky way is made up of faint taint stars The telescope confirms this impression by showing that the light of the milky way is caused aused by millions of stars In reality these stars are great suns sums and they appear faint taint only because of their immense distances Most of them are so remote remote remote re re- mote that several thousand years are required for tor their light to come cometo to us i v j |