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English: The Milky Way over Yumi Lake, Mt.KusatsuShirane, Gunma, Japan shot on route 292 Shiga Kusatsu road. Resolution 1920x1080. Resolution 1920x1080. This video of the night sky was created with a DSLR camera's time exposure/time-lapse feature.
The Milky Way [c] is the galaxy that includes the Solar System, ... Another star, HD 140283, has been estimated at 14.5 ± 0.7 billion years old. [37] [269] ...
The reduced instances of GRBs through the equator are due to the Zone of Avoidance of the Milky Way plane. Bottom: The specific GRBs in group 4 of the sample lying at 1.6 < z < 2.1. The clustering at the upper-left quarter region is the suspected Hercules–Corona Borealis Great Wall. Images credit: I. Horváth, Z. Bagoly, J. Hakkila and L. V ...
While Earth is located about 26,000 light-years from what's known as the galactic center, the outer portions of the Milky Way are even further, at about 58,000 light-years from our galaxy's ...
A clickable map of the nearby circa one-sixth outer sector of the galaxy, thus clearly showing the Local Arm (Orion Arm) and neighboring arms - as well as the Great Orion Nebula (as a very luminous feature of the less bright Orion molecular cloud complex) and broad-clouds North America Nebula (and Pelican Nebula) which is an intrinsic part of the Radcliffe wave.
Story at a glance (NewsNation) — This summer, you can gaze at the Milky Way without the need for a telescope, but you may have to drive a bit to get a good view. The center of our galaxy is ...
The Rosette Nebula (also known as Caldwell 49) is an H II region located near one end of a giant molecular cloud in the Monoceros region of the Milky Way Galaxy.The open cluster NGC 2244 (Caldwell 50) is closely associated with the nebulosity, the stars of the cluster having been formed from the nebula's matter.
The Dark Horse Nebula or Great Dark Horse (sometimes called the Prancing Horse) is a large dark nebula that, from Earth's perspective, obscures part of the upper central bulge of the Milky Way. The Dark Horse lies in the equatorial constellation Ophiuchus (the Serpent Bearer), near its borders with the more famous constellations Scorpius and ...