I remember the Milky Way looking very ... milky. It's just a dim white haze -- much dimmer than the stars surrounding it. The reason it doesn't really look li

I remember the Milky Way looking very ... milky. It's just a dim white haze -- much dimmer than the stars surrounding it. The reason it doesn't really look like the photos is that we don't have CCDs in our eyes. When things get dim enough, we lose a lot of color perception. (That's why night scenes look practically monochrome.)