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Explain why we see the Milky Way as a faint band of light stretching across the sky.
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Explain why we see the Milky Way as a faint band of light stretching across the sky.

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The Milky Way in the sky is our particular view of the inward part of the Milky Way Galaxy as seen from our location within the Galaxy's disk. Since we are part of the disk, we see a band of diffuse light that completely encircles us.
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