Astronomy Picture of the Day . 7,000 Stars And The Milky Way . ... To create the picture , draftsmen used a mathematical distortion to map the entire sky onto an oval shaped image with the plane of our Milky Way Galaxy along the center and the north galactic pole at the top. 7,000 individual stars are shown as white dots, size indicating brightness. ... Publications with keywords: Milky Way . Publications with words: Milky Way . ... Milky Way Galaxy Doomed: Collision with Andromeda Pending . ...