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Credit & Copyright: Rolf Weisenfeld
Explanation:
You can't
walk along the Milky Way.
Still, under a dark sky
you can explore it.
To the eye the pale luminous trail of light arcing
through the sky on a dark, moonless night does appear to be
a path through the heavens.
The glowing celestial band is the faint,
collective
light
of distant stars
cut by swaths of obscuring interstellar dust clouds.
It lies along the plane of
our home galaxy,
so named because it looks like a milky way.
Since Galileo's time, the Milky Way has been revealed
to telescopic skygazers to be filled with
congeries of innumerable
stars
and
cosmic wonders.
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Based on Astronomy Picture
Of the Day
Publications with keywords: Milky Way
Publications with words: Milky Way
See also:
- Galaxies in Space
- APOD: 2025 February 9 Á Milky Way over the Australian Pinnacles
- APOD: 2024 November 24 Á Journey to the Center of the Galaxy
- APOD: 2024 November 5 Á Milky Way over Easter Island
- APOD: 2024 August 4 Á Gaia: Here Comes the Sun
- APOD: 2024 July 29 Á Milky Way over Uluru
- APOD: 2024 May 29 Á Stairway to the Milky Way