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Why is it difficult to get a good picture of what the milky way galaxy looks like

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We are in the middle of one of it's arms, so we have no perspective. It is very large and the edges are far away and faint. Dust blocks our view when we look toward the center or in the plane. We don't have a starship to travel outside of it to see it in its entirety.

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