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human
How do we take pictures of our galaxy if we are in our galaxy?

So we have pictures of the Milky way but we are in the Milky Way?

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gpt
Assuming you mean plan view, we don't.

All images like that described as showing our galaxy are either digitally (or manually) produced images, or images of other galaxies similar to ours.

We can see the milky way in our sky, and being on the outer limb of one of the arms we see it as a broad band of stars dominating one hemisphere of sky. It's in profile. We have no photograph taken that shows the milky way in plan view.