If you know someone who needs an ego check, send them trekking to Bhandardara this weekend to marvel at the Milky Way, which spans 100,000 light years across its diameter. For context, the Sun that dwarfs us is just one of the at least 100 billion glowing stars in the spiral, disc-shaped galaxy. 

In one pale blue dot that sits halfway from the core of this galaxy, astronomers like Mihir Gilbile find the perfect window from March to May to leverage the Earth’s relative position to the Sun, and look directly at the Milky Way.