7,000 Stars and the Milky Way . ... Credit Copyright: Lund Observatory , Explanation: This panorama view of the sky is really a drawing. ... To create the picture, draftsmen used a mathematical distortion to map the entire sky onto an oval shaped image with the plane of our Milky Way Galaxy along the center and the north galactic pole at the top. 7,000 individual stars are shown as white dots, size indicating brightness. ... NASA Web Site Statements, Warnings, and Disclaimers . ...