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Астронет: Астрономическая картинка дня Вдоль Млечного Пути http://variable-stars.ru/db/msg/1747583/eng |
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.
Authors & editors:
Robert Nemiroff
(MTU) &
Jerry Bonnell
(USRA)
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and Disclaimers
NASA Official: Jay Norris.
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rights apply.
A service of:
LHEA at
NASA /
GSFC
& Michigan Tech. U.