It turns out many properties of the Milky Way are still poorly known. We can take what we do know and find galaxies that may match, though. An early version o

It turns out many properties of the Milky Way are still poorly known. We can take what we do know and find galaxies that may match, though. An early version of this work with a gallery of objects that might match what the Milky Way looks like (given all the observational uncertainties) is discussed at https://www.news.pitt.edu/milkywaycolor https://www.news.pitt.edu/milkywaycolor . A couple of the resulting scientific papers are at https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2015ApJ...809...96L/abstract https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2015ApJ...809...96L/abstra... and https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2016ApJ...833..220L/abstract https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2016ApJ...833..220L/abstra... and