How can we take pictures of our galaxy if we can not get outside of it to do so?
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We can do this by lunching satalites orprobes that go out into space and take the pictures for us.
Well it depends on what you mean by "seeing" the Milky Way. Since we are inside the Milky Way, whichever way we look, we are bound to see parts of the it all around us. Observations consistently indicate that we are located in the outer disk of the Milky Way; therefore when we look towards the center of our galaxy, we see most of the gas, dust, and stars that compose the galactic disk.
However we cannot see the entire Milky Way in the same way that we can view other galaxies, such as Andromeda. In fact, most of our understanding of the internal structure of the Milky Way is based on our observations of other galaxies combined with our limited perspective of our own galaxy.
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