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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:
- APOD: 2023 December 12 Á Aurora and Milky Way over Norway
- Milky Way Rising
- APOD: 2023 July 18 Á Milky Way above La Palma Observatory
- APOD: 2023 July 16 Á Meteor and Milky Way over the Alps
- APOD: 2023 July 2 Á Milky Way and Aurora over Antarctica
- APOD: 2023 June 20 Á The Nandu in the Milky Way
- APOD: 2023 May 29 Á Milky Way over a Turquoise Wonderland