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The Solar System traces out a sinusoidal path in its orbit around the galactic center. Using Galactic North as the initial frame of reference, the Earth and Sun rotate counterclockwise, and the Earth revolves in a counterclockwise direction around the Sun. However, the Sun and its satellites revolve CLOCKWISE around the Milky Way.
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.
Milky Way: Many European languages have borrowed, directly or indirectly, the Greek name for the Milky Way, including English and Latin. Road to Santiago: the Milky Way was traditionally used as a guide by pilgrims traveling to the holy site at Compostela, hence the use of "The Road to Santiago" as a name for the Milky Way. [58]
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 ...
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English: This image shows the Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies in space to scale. It illustrates both the size of each galaxy and the distance between the two galaxies, to create a better understanding of relative sizes and distances.
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Summer is the best time of year for seeing the Milky Way, but onlookers will need to travel to a dark area away from human-made light pollution to see the dim glow of the galaxy. Experts recommend ...