... The Annotated Galactic Center . ... The sky toward the center of our Galaxy is filled with a wide variety of celestial wonders, many of which are visible from a dark location with common binoculars. ... The stars are not alone. In the disk of our Milky Way Galaxy about 10 percent of visible matter is in the form of gas, called the interstellar medium (ISM). ... From central Iran on August 24th, the brightest star in this twilight desert skyview is Venus, aka the Evening Star. ... August 2010 . ...