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> Aren't we *in* the Milky Way?
Yes, and it's quite a flat disc, so looking out from Earth along the plane
of the disc you see a lot more stars than looking out perpendicular to it,
this looks like a brighter band going across the sky.
>> BTW if you're interested, one of the brightest "stars" in the sky at the
>> moment is actually Jupiter.
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> Any ideas what the visual angle for that is? ;-)
Wikipedia tells me the radius is 71500 km, Stellarium tells me it's 5.224 AU
away from us, so googling "2*71500 km / 5.224 AU in degrees" gives 0.01
degrees.
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