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This image is a derivative work of the following images: File:Milky Way 2005.jpg licensed with PD-USGov-NASA 2008-06-04T20:47:35Z Ashill 5600x5600 (4556578 Bytes) {{Information |Description= Like early explorers mapping the continents of our globe, astronomers are busy charting the spiral structure of our galaxy, the Milky Way. Using infrared ...
The original image, Image:Milky Way Arms-Hypothetical.png, was dloaded and rotated by gimp, so that Sun is up, as is custom on Milky Way "God's view" maps.The image is then saved and imported into inkscape, and used as a template for vector editing by hand.
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The Milky Way [c] is the galaxy that ... (d 1138) proposed that the Milky Way was made up of many stars but appeared to be a continuous image in the Earth's ...
Figure 1.The observed structure of the Milky Way's spiral arms [1]. The Orion Arm, also known as the Orion–Cygnus Arm, is a minor spiral arm within the Milky Way Galaxy spanning 3,500 light-years (1,100 parsecs) in width and extending roughly 20,000 light-years (6,100 parsecs) in length. [2]
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