You can see stars in the Milky Way. Pedantically, all the stars you can see are in the Milky Way, but in the sense you mean, the furthest stars are the ones th

You can see stars in the Milky Way. Pedantically, all the stars you can see are in the Milky Way, but in the sense you mean, the furthest stars are the ones that form the fuzzy cloud but there are closer ones in the same plane that you can see, so it looks like a long cloud dotted with stars. So you don't need to know the fuzzy bit is also stars to depict stars in it.