... HR 8799: Discovery of a Multi planet Star System . ... The two prominent stars in the foreground of this colorful skyscape are well within our own Milky Way Galaxy. ... But the two eye-catching galaxies in view lie far beyond the Milky Way, at a distance of about 200 million light-years. ... Fomalhaut (sounds like "foam-a-lot") is a bright, young, star, a short 25 light-years from planet Earth in the direction of the constellation Piscis Austrinus. ... Our Galaxy s Central Molecular Zone . ...