Astronomy Picture of the Day . A Milky Way Band . ... 30.09.2007 . ... Credit: John P. Gleason , Celestial Images Explanation: Most bright stars in our Milky Way Galaxy reside in a disk. Since our Sun also resides in this disk, these stars appear to us as a diffuse band that circles the sky. The above panorama of a northern band of the Milky Way's disk covers 90 degrees and is a digitally created mosaic of several independent exposures. ... Publications with keywords: Milky Way . ...