Near the spout of the tea pot is the brightest part of The Milky Way which will appear to you as a faint hazy band of light passing

Near the spout of the tea pot is the brightest part of The Milky Way which will appear to you as a faint hazy band of light passing from the southern most part of Scorpius past the tea pot of Sagittarius then through Scutum and continuing northeastward. The Milky Way is our home galaxy. What is a galaxy? It is an enormous grouping of billions upon billions of stars held together by their mutual gravitation. The combined light of billions of stars in The Milky Way gives it its hazy glow. Our own sun is but one of the stars which are part of The Milky Way. All the other stars which you see in the sky are also part of The Milky Way but don’t appear to be because they are much closer to us than most of the rest of stars in our galaxy.

If you are not satisfied that the hazy band of The Milky Way is actually made of a huge number of individual stars, look at it with a pair of binoculars. You will then see its true nature when uncountable numbers of stars become visible.

But back to Sagittarius. The densest part of The Milky Way to the north of the tea pot is where the center of our galaxy is located and the stars are packed the most tightly there. The southern limits of Sagittarius and Scorpius represent the southernmost limits of what the typical northern hemisphere observer will be able to see this month.