The milky way, seen from the top of Mauna Kea, Hawaii

SCIENCE

That's the moon. It looks like the sun because of the long exposures the camera needs to capture the milky way bright enough. Therefore the moon becomes brighter than it should be and looks like a sun.

Yes, every night sky the milky way if yo face in the correct direction. It's just that you have to go to places without light pollution too see it. We are on the outer side of the milky way, so what we're seeing in the rest of it inside towards the center.