The Milky Way: our galactic home
Our Sun belongs to the Milky Way. We live inside this galaxy, so we cannot take an ordinary photograph of it from outside.
The pale band across a very dark night sky is light from many distant stars in our galaxy, mixed with clouds of dust.
Wonder about this
Is an outside-view drawing of the Milky Way a spacecraft photograph?
A science clue
No. It is a reconstruction based on observations from our place inside the galaxy.