Curious Droid's video: How Do We Know What the Milky Way Really Looks Like

Go to https://squarespace.com/curiousdroid to get a free trial and 10% off your first purchase of a website or domain. We have all seen images of the Milky way that look like there are taken at great distances from the outside but how do we know that is correct. The Voyager spacecraft have been travelling for 44 years but have only gone 0.002 light years from Earth and will take another 40,000 years to reach our nearest neighbouring star. So in this video we look at how we know that the Milky way looks like on the outside from the inside. Written, researched and presented by Paul Shillito Images and footage : NASA, Sam Sciluna, Yuri Beletsky, Mehmet Ergün, Maksymilian Novak-Zemplinski And as always a big thank you also goes out to all our Patreons :-) Eριχθόνιος JL Adriaan_von_Grobbe Alipasha Sadri Andrew SMITH Brian Kelly Cameron Elliot Carl Soderstrom Charles Thacker ChasingSol Citizen Battle Collin Copfer Daniel Davenport Dom Riccobene erik ahrsjo Etienne Dechamps Florian Muller George Bishop II Glenn Dickinson Henning Bitsch inunotaisho james t early Jesse Postier Jim Early Johan Rombaut Jonathan Jonathan Merage Jonathan Travers Ken Schwarz L D László Antal Leifur Thor Lorne Diebel Mark Heslop oldGhostbear Paul Freed Paul Gorlinsky Paul Hilscher Paul Shutler Pu239 Samuel Finch SHAMIR stefan hufenbach Steve J - LakeCountySpacePort Thales of Miletus Tim Alberstein Tomasz Leszczyński Vincent Will Lowe Music from the YouTube library Drifting at 432Hz by Unicorn Heads