Wednesday, June 23, 2010

Do we only see stars from the milky way when looking with the naked eye?

and why?Do we only see stars from the milky way when looking with the naked eye?
The stars we can see with the naked eye are all within our galaxy, the Milky Way. Even with large telescopes, it is difficult to image individual stars in even the closest galaxies.





Why? Well, they're too far away.





The first answerer has confused ';galaxy'; for ';solar system';.Do we only see stars from the milky way when looking with the naked eye?
Other galaxy are so far away that if you can see them with a naked eye, it will probably appears like a star





In that sense, even if you are looking directly at a galaxy, you are not seeing the stars in that galaxy, you are seeing the entire galaxy as a whole, and its too small to distinguised each individual stars





The other galaxy are so far that the entire galaxy appears as one single entity.
I'm not sure I understand your question. When we look with the naked eye, 99.9% of the objects we see are in our own galaxy, the Milky Way. The other 0.1% are a handful of galaxies which are visible to the naked eye as fuzzy patches. We can only see about 5000 stars in the Milky Way with our naked eye; through a telescope we can see millions more stars in the Milky Way. Other galaxies are too far away to resolve individual stars, except in very large telescopes; all we see is the diffuse glow of millions of stars.
If you lived in the Southern Hemisphere, you could see the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds which are little companion galaxies to our own. From the Northern Hemisphere, with really good eyesight, you can see the Andromeda Galaxy though you cannot distinguish individual stars in it without a telescope.


Anything else you see in the night sky without optical aid is, at least gravitationally, a part of our galaxy.
Naked eye - ONLY Milky Way. Imagine Milky Way galaxy as a picture. Remember how it has lots and lots of stars, well do you see that many at night? No, we only see a small portion of those, with a naked eye. But, you might see Andromeda galaxy at night with a naked eye :)
no we can see stars of other galaxy also there are a no of galaxies which can be seen by naked eye earlier these galaxies were seen as stars but after the hubble telescope we came to kno that they were actly galaxies .
I'd have to say no. Lots of the stars we see at night are entirely different galaxies billions of light years away. So some of our favorite stars are really clusters of many. Love the night sky! :)
there is only 1 star in the milky way and that is the sun all the stars we see are like suns from different galaxies

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