I share my “discovery” of a new Milky Way star cloud that’s been staring at me for ages. The summer Milky Way tilts up into the southeastern sky before dawn on April 19th from Michigan's Keweenaw Peninsula. Dark nebulae break up the band into discrete, bright star clouds that are windows into the galaxy's spiral arms and core. Great quantities of interstellar dust absorb starlight along the band's midplane, creating the Great Rift, which appears to split the band into two. Photo details: 10-mm f/2.8 lens, ISO 3200, and 30-second exposure. Bob King On a late April morning from the tip of Michigan's Keweenaw Peninsula, I walked across two feet of hardened snow in whipping winds to find a sheltered spot for a photo of the summer Milky Way. It was an hour before the start of dawn. Other than the glow from a minor aurora far to the north, it was exceptionally dark — a true Bortle 1 experience. The sky was salty with stars.…