... Milky Way Over Spains Bardenas Reales . ... First, across the top of the above image, lies the faint band that is our planet's sideways view of the central disk of our home Milky Way Galaxy. Fire on Earth . ... Sometimes, regions of planet Earth light up with fire. ... Dwarf galaxy NGC 5195 is best known as the smaller companion of spiral M51, the Whirlpool galaxy. ... Spiral galaxies NGC 5426 and NGC 5427 are passing dangerously close to each other, but each is likely to survive this collision. ...