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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
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Galaxy Collisions: Simulation vs Observations
Video
14/05/2013
Galaxy Cove Vista
07/05/2013
Omega Centauri: The Brightest Globular Cluster
01/05/2013
Milky Way and Stone Tree
29/04/2013
Airglow, Gegenschein, and Milky Way
20/04/2013
Star Factory Messier 17
18/04/2013
Grand Spiral Galaxy M81 and Arp's Loop
16/04/2013
Darkened City
11/04/2013
Comet of the North
05/04/2013
Infrared Portrait of the Large Magellanic Cloud
23/03/2013
Light Echoes from V838 Mon
17/03/2013
Milky Way Panorama from Mauna Kea
10/03/2013
N11: Star Clouds of the LMC
11/02/2013
Namibian Nights
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Video
04/02/2013
Herschel's Andromeda
02/02/2013
NGC 4372 and the Dark Doodad
31/01/2013
ISS and the Summer Milky Way
24/01/2013
Nearby Spiral Galaxy NGC 4945
23/01/2013
Barnard Stares at NGC 2170
19/01/2013
NGC 1309: Spiral Galaxy and Friends
16/01/2013
Ten Billion Earths
12/01/2013
Grand Spiral Galaxy NGC 7424
08/01/2013
Open Star Clusters M35 and NGC 2158
03/01/2013
Yosemite Winter Night
25/12/2012
M33: Triangulum Galaxy
20/12/2012
When Gemini Sends Stars to Paranal
15/12/2012
Milky Way Over Quiver Tree Forest
12/12/2012
NGC 604: Giant Stellar Nursery
11/12/2012
47 Tuc Near the Small Magellanic Cloud
06/12/2012
Plasma Jets from Radio Galaxy Hercules A
05/12/2012