EXPLORE THE MILKY WAY
“WHAT YOU’LL SEE WILL BE A FAINT BAND OF LIGHT SNAKING ITS WAY THROUGH A BACKDROP OF STARS”
It’s easy to forget the true beauty and splendour of the Milky Way. With acres of countryside being torn apart in favour of cities, the change in our planet’s landscape can only really mean one thing in this regard: light pollution. This yellow to orange hue plagues many astronomers by washing out the stunning gems that our night sky has to offer, with only the brightest objects managing to shine through the haze. And with the added appearance of the bright Moon, it can be very tough to get any observing done that a stargazer feels satisfied with. The fainter and somewhat delicate beauty of our Milky Way galaxy simply can’t compete.
Leaving behind the dazzling, bright lights on a Moonless night, our galaxy will be less obscured. And the sights – particularly over the next few weeks – are ones that will make your jaw drop as our galaxy truly reveals all that it’s got.
Allowing your eyes 20 minutes to adjust to the darkness, what you’ll see will be a faint band of light, akin to a backlit cloud, snaking its way through a backdrop of stars. Your eyes alone can’t resolve the Milky Way into individual stars, but that just makes our galaxy all the more alluring when
