How does this always happen?

some science just for u ( :

Is that a picture of the galaxy in the sky?

yes, it's the Milky Way. it's all we can see with the naked eye.

So did someone superimpose a pic of the galaxy on the sky?

no, it's referring to how the stars are all lightyears away from us and their relative positions are always changing, so their apparent positions are always years out of date. and the overall image is warped since the 'errors' in position range from four years for the nearest stars to 100,000 years for the farthest. so, the galaxy has never been the way that it looks, some of the stars we 'see' now probably flamed out a long time ago, and the newest ones aren't visible to us yet because their light hasn't reached us yet. the overall argument depends on the ideas that the galaxy has existed for a long time as a dynamic spiral-type structure and the speed of light is a known constant. the known universe as seen through Hubble and other telescopes is much bigger, of course, but also dynamic, so orders of magnitude even more wrong lol! this used to keep me up at night. now i rarely think about it.

Your brain is so fascinating. :-) Thank you for the explanation. I would not have figured that out on my own. lol

thanks for reading. i wanted it to be interesting. hopefully not too boring.

It's not boring. I just have to re-read it a few times to understand it, but that's only because the subject is outside of what I know. lol It has nothing to do with you. :-) It is all very interesting to me, even if it takes me a little longer to catch on. :-)

your indulgence and kindness are appreciated more than you know ( :
sometime when you're feeling extra indulgent, ask me how enzymes make reactions go so fast lol! but really thanks ( :

Sounds like another comment I'll be reading several times over. lol Not that I'll mind. :-)