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Seen from above, which nobody has ever done. This is a reconstruction.
We have never photographed our own galaxy from outside and never will. Every picture of the Milky Way from above is drawn from measurements taken inside it.
Every star within 12 light years. The Sun is the one in the middle. One pixel of the previous drawing, opened up. This whole sphere would be invisible on the galaxy map: it is a thousandth of a…