Why don't we see the galaxy center? When we look at the sky, and see the Milky Way, we mainly see a band, with no real center.

On a more accurate picture we can guess the center of the galaxy (see this picture), but we still don't see the center as some kind of big bright "star", like on this picture.

I know there is a lot of objects (stars, planets and dust) between us and the center of the galaxy. But stars are bright and they shouldn't "hide" the galaxy center's light since they shine too.

Why don't we see the galaxy center as a "night sun"?

How much dust is there so it's blocking the galaxy center's light?

Is it because of all Oort clouds of all solar systems that we don't see the galaxy center clearly?
The main reason we don't see the bright center of our galaxy, which is composed of millions of stars, is dust. Visible light is absorbed and scattered by interstellar dust, but that doesn't mean we can't see it on other waves of the spectrum, for example, infrared light doesn't suffer as much because of the dust.

Notice on this image how bright the galaxy center looks on the infrared and the near-infrared pictures!:



Image taken from the MultiwaveLength Milky Way website of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center.