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Another world can be seen in this stunning sky — this time, one a little closer to home. At the top of the image, two bright, reddish objects sit just outside the main river of the Milky Way. The one on the left is Antares — a red giant star in Scorpius — and the one on the right is Saturn, the spectacular ringed gas giant planet.
English: Sun's Path Around the Milky Way. An illustration showing the path of the Sun, Earth and Moon around the Milky Way. The inclinations of the Ecliptic Plane and Celestial Equator are shown with respect to the Galactic North Pole and Galactic Plane. The inclination of the moon's orbit is shown relative to the Ecliptic Plane.
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English: This illustration shows a stage in the predicted merger between our Milky Way galaxy and the neighboring Andromeda galaxy, as it will unfold over the next several billion years. In this image, representing Earth's night sky in 3.75 billion years, Andromeda (left) fills the field of view and begins to distort the Milky Way with tidal pull.
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