 Avempace considers the Milky Way to be a phenomenon both of the spheres above the moon and of the sublunar region. The Milky Way is the light of many stars which almost touch one another. Their light forms a “continuous image” (khayal muttasil) on the surface of the body which is like a “tent” (takhawwum) under the fierily element and over the air which it  covers.[23]  Avempace defines the continuous image as the result of refraction (in‛ikas) and supports its explanation with an observation of a conjunction of two planets, Jupiter and Mars which took place in 500/1106–7. He watched the conjunction and “saw them having an elongate figure” (Lettinck 1999: 434) although their figure is circular.