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DescriptionMilky Way Arms ssc2008-10.svg
Artist's conception of the Milky Way galaxy as seen from far Galactic North (in Coma Berenices) by NASA/JPL-Caltech/R. Hurt [1] annotated with arms (colour-coded according to Milky Way article) as well as distances from the Solar System and galactic longitude with corresponding constellation.
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2008-06-04T20:47:35Z Ashill 5600x5600 (4556578 Bytes) {{Information |Description= Like early explorers mapping the continents of our globe, astronomers are busy charting the spiral structure of our galaxy, the Milky Way. Using infrared images from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope,
2005-09-16T08:01:47Z Shizhao 1350x1350 (977628 Bytes) Barred Spiral Milky Way Illustration Credit: R. Hurt (SSC), JPL-Caltech, NASA From http://apod.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap050825.html {{PD-USGov-NASA}}