"Many people don't know what conditions to look for and what time of the month that they're able to see the Milky Way with their naked eye," he said. To capture the video's stunning visuals ...

It looks like a flat stripe because we are viewing it from within its disk; if we were able to get above the Milky Way, it would look like an enormous spiral about 100,000 light years across.

(Photo by: Alan Dyer/VWPics/Universal Images Group via Getty Images) What time of night is the Milky Way visible? This is the real beauty of going looking for the Milky Way during August because ...