In the waning days of summer, sky-watchers can get an amazing view of our home galaxy, the Milky Way, in the evening skies. When viewed away from city lights, it is visible as a faint hazy band stretching from east to west overhead. For those in brightly lit suburbs, binoculars can help spot swarms of faint stars strewn across the Summer Triangle pattern of stars high above our heads this time of the year. The Milky Way actually cuts right across the cross-shaped constellation Cygnus, the swan. The hazy band we see above our heads is actually one of our galaxy’s spiral arms spread out in front of us, filled with millions of stars. Our sun sits about two-thirds of the way out from the downtown central core of the spiral at about 30,000 light-years distant.
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2016/09/weeks-night-sky-see-milky-way-moon-planets-astronomy/
