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    I don’t know what this is I clicked it when I was in Congo is it milkay way ???

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    1. ThyOughtTo on

      Having lived many years in Tanzania, close to Congo (If you mean DRC) I have seen the whole spine of the Milky Way when being out on the savannah countless times. Your image but 10x the width and just cluttered with stars and bodies of all different colors, crystal clear.

      So yeah, that’s what you saw

    4. YourQBSucks123 on

      Always blows my mind when people are shocked by seeing the Milky Way. Like, have you seriously never left the city?

    5. Sam-314 on

      We visited Breckenridge, CO way out in nowhere. The first time I realized I had never actually see the sky for what it is. Nearly cried when I could visibly see the arm of the Milky Way.

    7. DianaSironi on

      Certainly is! So glad you took a pic to remember it by. We can see the Milky Way from many places on Earth that have low light pollution. You are very lucky. I saw it, too, while on a ship in the Pacific on the way to Tabuaeran ~20 years ago. Trite descriptions aside – it made the giant ocean feel so small. Keep looking up!!

    8. invaderdan on

      TIL some People have never seen a dark sky at night.

      Yes, my friend you are looking towards what all evidence shows is the center of our galaxy, which we call the Milky Way.

      Enjoy, it can be seen in many light conditions, now that you know, you likely will notice it again.

    9. railwayed on

      I grew up in South Africa and used to hike in the Drakensberg mountains. At the escarpment in Lesotho away from any light pollution I have witnessed such spectacular sights of the milky way it will be forever embedded in my memory. I do miss that

    11. miurabull on

      First time I saw the milky way in a proper dark sky was in Kielder Forest in the UK. The amount of stars visible to the naked eye was mind-blowing.

    12. reddit_seaczar on

      When the east coast had that big power outage years ago people saw the milky way for the first time in their lives because there was no light pollution. 911 was receiving calls from all over about the strange lights in the sky. It was just a clear view of the milkyway. 😂

    13. Iampepeu on

      Aww! I’ve seen northern lights 100s of times, but never this! To be fair and a bit anal though, you always see the Milky Way.

    14. GunasInFlux on

      Genuine question – since we exist in the Milky Way galaxy, isn’t any cosmological phenomenon we observe in the sky considered seeing the Milky Way galaxy? I’m probably being a semantic bologna head

    15. standerinvain on

      Your question is very difficult to parse. If you respect your audience, please write better

    16. Rogaar on

      You can easily see the Milkyway Galaxy with the naked eye. Most people have never seen it because they live in cities their entire lives. Go out camping for a week as far from any civilization as possible and be amazed. You only live once so go enjoy what nature has provided. It’s free.