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title: "How is the picture of our Milky Way galaxy taken from the outside if we are inside the galaxy?"  
description: "How is the picture of our Milky Way galaxy taken from the outside if we are inside the galaxy?"  
author: "simron shukla"  
published: 2018-03-07  
canonical: https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/37157/how-is-the-picture-of-our-milky-way-galaxy-taken-from-the-outside-if-we-are-inside-the-galaxy  
category: "galaxy"  
tags: ["galaxies"]  
reading_time: 1 minute  

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# How is the picture of our Milky Way galaxy taken from the outside if we are inside the galaxy?

How is the [picture](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/34495/what-was-best-picture-of-the-year-of-the-second-los-angeles-olympics) of our [Milky Way galaxy](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/37165/there-s-a-giant-black-hole-in-the-middle-of-our-milky-way-galaxy-is-it-a-reason-to-be-concerned-in-the-future) taken from the outside if we are inside the galaxy?


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