What’s amazing also is the star fielding the left half of the picture. If you blow it up to the highest resolution that space looks solid with stars.
and God knows each one by name
fielding = field in
The whole picture is solid with stars in the background. It’s crowded out there.
I always knew those Art Bell commercials promising to name a star after me were scams, not much different than naming a water molecule after me.
That is the Winter Milky Way. It’s some of the closer parts of the Milky Way to us (that’s why it’s not so showy in the night sky compared to the Summer Milky Way).
Monoceros: the Unicorn. Dim constellation, RICH in stars.