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Milky Way
The galaxy that contains our Solar System, characterized by its barred spiral structure with multiple spiral arms extending from a central bar.
Source: esa.int
APODs including "Milky Way"
Winter Hexagon over Manla Reservoir
23/01/2017
Space Station Vista: Planet and Galaxy
18/01/2017
Edge-On NGC 891
12/01/2017
Peculiar Galaxies of Arp 273
05/01/2017
Clouds of Andromeda
04/01/2017
Shell Game in the LMC
29/12/2016
M31: The Andromeda Galaxy
27/12/2016
Once Upon a Solstice Eve
23/12/2016
Seagull to Sirius
15/12/2016
Meteors over Four Girls Mountain
13/12/2016
Galaxies in Pegasus
03/12/2016
Milky Way over Shipwreck
30/11/2016
NGC 891 vs Abell 347
12/11/2016
Great Rift Near the Center of the Milky Way
10/11/2016
The Cosmic Web of the Tarantula Nebula
08/11/2016
Starburst Cluster in NGC 3603
06/11/2016
Halloween and the Ghost Head Nebula
30/10/2016
Haunting the Cepheus Flare
28/10/2016
HI4PI: The Hydrogen Sky
24/10/2016
The Tulip in the Swan
20/10/2016
Gemini Observatory North
15/10/2016
Galaxies from the Altiplano
13/10/2016
Trifid, Lagoon, and Mars
06/10/2016
Lynds Dark Nebula 1251
30/09/2016
Five Hundred Meter Aperture Spherical Telescope
29/09/2016
Gaia: Here Comes the Sun
Video
26/09/2016
Heart and Soul and Double Cluster
24/09/2016
Zooming in on Star Cluster Terzan 5
Video
21/09/2016
M33: Triangulum Galaxy
17/09/2016
Retrograde Mars and Saturn
15/09/2016