The Brightness of the Night Sky at the Milky Way's Center.

If we were closer to the center of the Milky Way, our night sky would be much brighter due to the increased density of stars. However, the presence of obscuring gas and dust currently hides the galactic core at optical wavelengths. If we were able to move through most of this material, we would be looking at a sky ablaze with stars, making it great for observing stars but difficult for deep-sky astronomers.