How is it ecliptic and not milky why?

It appears milky because it's made from so many stars that from a distance, it looks milky.If you look at the Milky Way from somewhere where the sky is really dark, it looks like someone spilled...

It is not actually. The Greeks thought it was the fountain of milk from the goddessHera's breast.The milky way galaxy gots its name because the milky way looks like a trickle of spilled milk

The great circle representing the apparent annual path of the sun;the plane of the Earth's orbit around the sun;makes an angle of about 23 degrees with the equator. Answer. The ecliptic is the...

The ecliptic is the plane of the Earth's orbit around the Sun. So the Sun and the Earth are always on the ecliptic. Most of the other planets have orbits that are within a few degrees of the...

Lots and lots of stars.