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English: The Milky Way over Yumi Lake, Mt.KusatsuShirane, Gunma, Japan shot on route 292 Shiga Kusatsu road. Resolution 1920x1080. This video of the night sky was created with a DSLR camera's time exposure/time-lapse feature.
The collection of stars rises close to perpendicular to the plane of the spiral arms of the Milky Way. The proposed likely interpretation is that a dwarf galaxy is merging with the Milky Way. This galaxy is tentatively named the Virgo Stellar Stream and is found in the direction of Virgo about 30,000 light-years (9 kpc) away. [237]
NGC 2608 (also known as Arp 12) is a barred spiral galaxy located 93 million light-years away in the constellation Cancer (the Crab). It is 62,000 light-years across, and about 60% of the width of the Milky Way.
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The Milky Way has several smaller galaxies gravitationally bound to it, as part of the Milky Way subgroup, which is part of the local galaxy cluster, the Local Group. [ 1 ] There are 61 small galaxies confirmed to be within 420 kiloparsecs (1.4 million light-years ) of the Milky Way, [ 2 ] but not all of them are necessarily in orbit, and some ...
It is a beautiful image with ~ 10 million stars and fantastic example of the center of our galaxy. Articles this image appears in Galactic Center Creator 2MASS/G. Kopan, R. Hurt. Support as nominator — Imaninjapirate talk to me 16:02, 27 May 2007 (UTC) Comment Very nice. I would love to support, but the gray border needs to be cropped first.