system
Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
When looking at the Milky Way, are you looking deeper onto the Milky Way or out of the Milky Way?
gpt
To add some specifics to the good general answers: assuming you’re viewing from the northern hemisphere in the evening, the part of the Milky Way you can see in summer, toward the south, is toward the center of the galaxy.  In winter, high overhead, you’re looking outward.

(The center of the galaxy is toward the constellation Sagittarius; outward is toward Auriga and Gemini.)

You can also notice that the summer Milky Way is a lot brighter and thicker: there’s a lot more stars toward the center.